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This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 15: Sight of You (Makes Me Feel Blue)

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As you wish.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you show up just to do this?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

And because you missed me so much, sweetums.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, I did. Recuperation progresses well, I hope??

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I missed you too. And yeah, I feel pretty okay.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you eating lots of Jell-O? I hear that's your constitutional right, as an invalid.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like jello so much - but I have been drinking a lot of water. Doesn't taste as good, and you can't do the squishy suck it through your teeth thing, but it's working for me at the moment.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody's noticed that I changed my name again.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course we have.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I did, anyway.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's supposed to be Kryptonian.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Supposed to be.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

kryptic Kryptonian?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

hi everybody, btw.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazing! *desperately tries to figure out if the title is a Pale Saints reference or if the line actually came from somewhere else first*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, see who suggested the title and take a wild guess.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

*checks* And happiness is had.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://theAges.superman.ws/History/jorel1.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/capedwonder/Krypton/Krypton_family_portrait.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

ARGH.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't make me get out Last Tango in Paris!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I. Dare. You.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Butter!

Parkay!

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.deliaonline.com/picturelibrary%5Cjpeg150/sp/sponge-soft-butter.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

smooth & spreadable!

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

okay what the fuck are these threads for already

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't it about time for someone to come and ask what these threads are for?

omg xpost!!!!!!!!!!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

that was frea-kay

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v108/mkottema/dolly_copy.jpg

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

omg lol wtf

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

OH BOY I'M WEARING THE LOLLERSKATES NOW

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(no really, what the hell is this)

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

These threads are sort of the watercooler of ILX.
"Hey, here's what's going in my life."
"Dude, my job sucks."
"At least you have a job."
"How'd you get in here, this watercooler's for employees only, Casuistry. Get back on the sidewalk."
"Hmmm, we're gonna need better security."

― Huk-L (of Earth-2), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it was a watercolor!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Who put Grade-ade mix into the cooler? it's colored purple, now!

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Pale Saints did.


― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

How long have you gone without checking your voicemail at work? I went 2 hours today and had 9 messages.

HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH IS PLAYING ON THE LITE RADIO STATION HERE! ARGGGHHHH! I CAN'T TAKE IT!!!

In better news, I have 21 minutes left of work today.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

32 minutes until the rock/roll/whatever party starts.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i went for two years with no voicemail and then they finally gave it to me three weeks ago and i haven't had ONE message.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 3 June 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the international equiv of the sheepfuxors thread Ade (that one being the Aussie/NZ watercooler chat thread).

Mind you we dont care who pops in there either.

Hello everyone I feel like I have been awfully quiet lately. I havent anything much to say. Im on holidays and yet checked my work mail this morning. And then got angry at my friend for teasing me about my desk (I loathe being teased).

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 3 June 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I get nothing but rockstars with hurt feelings on my voicemail.
"Hey Huck, this is Lita Ford. I thought we had an interview scheduled for right now. Where are you? I know I said last time that if you ever blew me off again, it would be the last time I ever spoke to you, but I just can't give up like that. Let's make this work, honey. For the kids."

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Gaz, what's your number? Nobody should be without voicemail messages, that's just a recipe for pain!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I handed in 10,000 words of my thesis (with outline and timetable) yesterday! Let me just say

WOOHOO!

But it's still a while before I can apply for an upgrade on my degree. But still, I did lots of work! woo!

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Awww I am so cheered! My mum, my sister and Eve the dog just came to visit me at work (admittedly I was mainly excited to see Eve, who is the cutest thing IN THE WORLD, as I may have mentioned before).
Here's a pic though it doesn't do her justice:
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/playforth/evecp.jpg

Oh yay Sarah! (I am still struggling with my current 4000 word paper and have no idea how I will manage 20,000 next year...)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't see the pic Arch. yay Sarah! I have an exam in two weeks, mu studying isn't going... erm, well it isn't going!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, unexpected visits at work sound lovely (but I can't see the pic either).

The only way I can conceive of things with thesis-like proportions is to break them down into smaller units, so this chapter was all made of 500-3000 word individual bits all strung together. I've got to trick myself into working most of the time until enough accumulates.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

You can do it Sarah, we have faith in you!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

:)
Archel, what's your 4000 word paper about? Does the count include footnotes/quotes?

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It's 'Disability, Rights and Access in the Network Society: the impact of information and communication' and it does include footnotes and quotes, although we're discouraged from using footnotes anyway. I have written about 3000 words already, but now it's the job of making them actually make sense...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm, i wonder what happened to the pic. Theyre normally ok.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

iT'S THE SAME on the what do you look liek thread A!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I know :(
Maybe too much bandwidth or something?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, that's a cool thing to write about.

My mother is heading back home in a few hours, after a very nice week-long visit here. So I will start posting frequently again starting.... soon.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in a very dark and foul mood today.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The sun will come out tomorrow, Huk-L.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

So foul and fair a Huck I have not seen. I wish I could send you Eve to pat, but I fear she won't take to the fax machine too well.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a big stack of (slightly more interesting than usual) CDs in the mail yesterday from a magazine I write for. This morning I got an email from them saying their deadline is tomorrow because of the Canada Day long weekend.
That's not what I'm most sore about, but it does seem to confirm my paranoia about life=shit.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel, Could you link to the page where the pic is instead?

A rep's assistant just called me asking for an update on a quote. But, you see, I'm totally slammed and her quote request is towards the bottom of my pile. So then she says that the rep is ON HER WAY to meet with the clients and needs this information "As soon as possible would be GREAT!!!" I hate it when you can hear them smiling as they demand things over the phone. GRRR.

But actually, I'm in a really good mood today compared to yesterday.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been in a shit mood today - way too much arse sooking going on in this job. Everyone except me flocks round the boss hanging on her every word and trying their damndest to impress her. She laps it up!

I for one can't be assed stopping what I'm doing to gaze intently at her while she rants non stop about her latest self tan experiment!

And if you don't listen to her everytime her trap opens she'll ignore you pointedly for the rest of the day!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure I understand the science of the self-tan, can it only be done by metahumans who radiate sufficient UV rays or is there a pill you take?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I understand, Rumpy. I once had a boss like that. I swear she would leave work to get her hair or nails done at least once a week. She'd be gone for 3 hours straight in the middle of the work day. And all the ladies would say she was beautiful. And she would talk about overweight people all the time like she pitied them. One day she actually said, "Did you hear Mary in Accounting got her stomach stapled? Isn't that just great?!"

I'm drinking blah work coffee, but it's making me happy.

Did you know gas is expensive? Fucking expensive?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah the paper writers and good thoughts for all! As for me, I might or might not have a sore throat.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

When do you get the results in, Ned?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just said goodbye to my work colleague who is going on maternity leave for 6 months. :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

When do you get the results in, Ned?

I have to hack up on you and see if you start coughing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

If you caught it from me, fear not, for it will be gone soon enough.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(Not to imply that Ned and I were involved in the manly exchange of throat cultures.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/playforth/evecp.jpg

Does that work now?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

these threads were around a long time before the sheepfuxors thread and didn't start water-coolery i think.

bout to go in for an 11-hour bar shift. shoot me. bar work sucks.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember when these threads used to be in italics.

I like the summer, but I think that when's the sun out, work should be too... In Chicago anyway... We have to soak it up while we can.

I like puppy dogs. I'm jealous of all the people in my neighborhood out walking their dogs all the time.

I can feel my co-workers turning against me. This is mainly because the VP has decided I'm his star student. He keeps chatting me up about just about everything and saying I'm really smart and doing such a great job (but doesn't show it to me with money or anything). I work really hard. In the last 5 minutes, I did a bunch of purchase orders and had to print them out as I went along. Two co-workers went over to get their stuff off the printer, grabbed my stuff and threw it on my desk as if I were being lazy by not running to the printer every single time something prints.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, it bugs the SHIT out of me when people grab my stuff off the printer and throw it on my desk. If I fucking wanted it right now, I'd have fucking gotten up and fucking gotten it my fucking self, okay, gimpy? Leave it alone and I'll pick it up when (a) I've printed everything I need to, and (b) when I'm goddamned well good and ready.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone wanna go see a movie or something tonight? I'm bored and lonely.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'll pick you up around 7:30?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds good. Dinner after?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh.

My girlfriend is having a stress fit because her father -- who still has access to her Washington bank balance, where she has her savings account, because it's the same account she's had for twenty years; he isn't on it, but you know how it is, small town, the tellers have known him since they were kids, etc. -- emailed her a passive-aggressive email wondering why she's spent so much more money in Indiana than she did in New Orleans, with the clear implication that he assumes she's spending it on something stupid.

Put aside all the reasons why she's spending more money (she's not living in the dorm, the cost of living is higher, electricity is twice as expensive because northerners are damnfools when it comes to temperature efficiency, we actually buy groceries instead of eating sandwiches or Ramen) and the most important reason -- she's spending more because we have more -- there's the unacceptable tone of propriety. We're in our late 20s. We pay our own bills. He pays for her car insurance because the car was his mother's, and that was part of the gift when he gave it to her. He gave her the money for her to pay her moving expenses last year.

But it's not like we're undergraduates sending bills home to Daddy, and a criticism of her spending habits is by extension a criticism of me. I've been seeing after my own shit for twelve years -- I got by on Ramen and hoarded soy sauce packets for some of em, and I made a lot of duck and foie gras for some of em, but shit got paid, and for three of those years I had my own kids to look after; just because my girlfriend happens to be a few years younger doesn't mean I've suddenly hopped back into the kiddie pool. Even if we were spending all our money on plastic monkeys and drive-through blowjobs, it wouldn't matter: it's our money. The most we've asked from him was an extension on the moving loan last year, and that was only because his insistence that she visit for three weeks made it impossible for her to take the summer job she was offered.

This is why it's such a terrible idea for college students to return to their parents' for the summer: it furthers the idea that college is summer camp, and it allows you to rely on the dorm/dining hall system instead of finding and paying for your own shit the way real people do. Her parents treat her like a kid -- I mean, literally, her mother talks to her like she's twelve, and her father's refusal to accept that she doesn't plan to move "back home" always ends with a verbal pat on the head: "well, I could see about getting you a job at the elementary school" (she's getting her PhD in classical studies; not a lot of call for that in the book report set).

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(Sorry to infodump, but this is one time I can't post to my blog; it'd just add to her stress.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

That sucks--you both have my sympathy, it sounds like a really awkward situation. Is setting up her own savings account with that money an option?

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Is telling him to "mind his own damn business, you're both adults" an option?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Clearly she's got to talk to the bank - and then tell her father that her bank balance is none of his business, that you're both adults and dealing with your bills on your own, and what he's done is disrespectful and just fucking not on.

I'm sorry sug - what a pain in the ass.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

She has the old account because of some kind of investment thing -- bonds? certificates of deposit? I'm not sure -- in her name from when she was a kid, and graduation gifts, and so forth; this way, the dividends are deposited directly, and when she eventually cashes them out, that's where they'll go. But yeah, if it were me, I'd ditch the account, we have local checking accounts.

(I actually do still have my high school savings account, come to think of it, but only because my mother deposits money in it as a Christmas present.)

It's the kind of thing that passes with time. The more often she reacts like the 25 year old he forgets she is, the closer we get to him treating her like one. The frustration for me is just that I thought I'd left this sort of thing behind years ago; my financial concerns these days are things like "can I afford to 'take the summer off' and write a novel" (yes) and "can I still afford an expensive dinner on my birthday if I do that" (maybe) and "what about my week of sex-tourism in Malaysia" (not so much), not "is my girlfriend's father going to bitch us out because we took a weekend trip."

The "mind your own business" line is my recommendation, but she has this ... I don't know, old fear of disappointing him, specifically in money matters; he's a farmer, owns his own farm because his grandfather homesteaded it, prides himself on not owing anything to the bank or creditors, etc. He taught her a lot of terrible habits that sound practical: worrying about bills, so that paying them off remains a top priority, for one. It's hard for her to draw the line and tell him she's drawing it, the way it would be hard to tell a religious parent you're not estranged from that you're not going to church anymore.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

And that's true, it is difficult, but not dealing with it in a more harsh manner suggest that it's okay for him to perpetuate his behavior.

Telling your parents to back off is hard for everyone, but it relieves a lot of the pressure once it's done, and can force them to take you more seriously.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I could be talking out of my ass.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Come to think of it, the middle bit there is why I posted here instead of LJ: ultimately my frustration is "I don't want to deal with this kind of stress," a selfish frustration rather than the "this is how we fix it" or "this is where the dilemma is" sort of frustration. It's not like anything is in jeopardy here; it's just residual and area-effect stress that happens to be unpleasant, and that makes me twitch because I can't help with it.

(Well, and because we're going away for the weekend and I don't want her to be tense all the time or she'll cringe every time we pay for something. There's nothing worse -- I say this with four hundred years of New England family behind me -- than going out to do something you can easily afford to do and scrimping on it because you're scared of spending money. Well, except hornet socks.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I think she also looks at my track record, to an extent:

- Told my mother to back off, and she did, but she's distracted by my brother and his new baby, who live minutes away instead of states away;

- Told my father to back off, and I haven't talked to him in two years.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

That's all well and good, but she isn't you, and her parents aren't yours (your dad is a case unto himself - and you know I don't say that disrespectfully, just based on conversations you and I have had.)

People react differently... if she wants them to back off, I maintain that she has to tell them, or they won't.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What about her taking a sort of "I have to make my own way in the world and aren't you glad I'm being grown-up and responsible instead of asking you for money?" attitude. I had to do this with my parents over the weekend.
So tell her how much she deserves your nice weekend away, and not to worry about the money.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I know you know and I don't mean to sound preach-y - I just know how fucking frustrating it is.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

People react differently... if she wants them to back off, I maintain that she has to tell them, or they won't.

I think you're right, yeah. I'm not sure she'll DO it, not today, but I don't know. Other than the last time they argued about whether or not she was going to move "back home" (he didn't want her to go to Indiana, two years in Louisiana was long enough to be out of state; see what I mean?), this is the first time since I've met her that the need for line-drawing has actively arisen.

Usually when we talk about things like this she says, "Well, I'm closer to my family than you are," which is disheartening, because it sometimes sounds too much like she thinks that closeness is the same as never making anyone unhappy. All families fit together differently, though, granted.

What about her taking a sort of "I have to make my own way in the world and aren't you glad I'm being grown-up and responsible instead of asking you for money?" attitude. I had to do this with my parents over the weekend.

I'm really hoping she says something like this instead of only pointing out the reasons why she's spent more money. It de-stressed her a little when I pointed out that yes, there were very good reasons why we've spent more money, but I'm a little afraid that'll mean she won't actually say, "But that's my business," or anything to that effect.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

($27K, by the way, over fifteen months. Not to be crass by getting into specifics, but that's the ghastly figure at hand. $27K, over fifteen months. Three of those months were in New Orleans, and include graduation fees, cap and gown, etc. Four thousand of it covered her share of the movers, the new furniture, and other moving-to-Bloomington expenses.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm close to my family too, but I don't let them walk over me or tell me what I should or shouln't be doing with my money.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

She just came downstairs before heading out to her nail appointment (ironically, that's one of the expenses I raise an eyebrow at, but hell, I spend more than that on DVDs) and asked for help writing the email reply when she gets home, partly to make sure she doesn't give too many specifics (I said I wasn't comfortable with her laying it all out, since it's my money too, and no one needs to know how much I spend on migraine medication, for instance, or dwarf porn) and partly just because she's nervous about it. So that's probably good.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

She doesn't have to point out the reasons why she's spent money, she doesn't owe anyone an explanation about what she does with her own money, especially when that explanation is asked for in a passive-agressive way. I have to say this kind of thing annoys me too because of my own experience--she has a right to draw the line now, and also to decide that she will not let any family manipulativeness (however well-meant) interfere with her life as a grown-up.

Anyway, I'm just reiterating what Luna's already expressed well.
x-post...especially if you share that account, *in no way* does her father need an explanation of your expenditures as a couple.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep, I'm sorry you two are having to go through this. When my bf didn't have a job (only for a couple of months after we moved here), my mom was always freaking out about us spending money. When she was here visiting last weekend, she saw our new-to-us couch (majorly discounted) and sideboard (from a thrift store), which are both very large pieces. Then she noticed a lamp I got on sale at Crate & Barrel and I didn't even respond to her exclamation of, "AND is that a new lamp!?"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

My mother's exactly like that -- well, she used to be, I guess this is why I think it's important to draw the line; my mother really doesn't give me a hard time anymore, I'm just used to her doing so. She doesn't watch movies -- never has liked them much except one or two. Me, I have about two hundred DVDs sitting next to the TV; I watch movies every day. You can imagine her reaction to seeing them. So I had to point out, yeah, it's a lot of movies; but it's what I spend money on, instead of going on trips to places I don't have time to visit, or buying real estate. I don't have a job I can leave for a couple weeks at a time, a couple times a year, so I spend my pleasure money on things I can enjoy at home.

Eventually, after saying that enough times, my mother either gave up or saw my point. This is, I guess, still the middle of that process for Lindsey.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"I handed in 10,000 words of my thesis (with outline and timetable) yesterday! Let me just say
WOOHOO!"

You deserve a big hug and a bottle of champagne. Congrats - really. You are an inspiration. Go get drunk again.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Good gosh, all right. We have jointly composed an email (from her, of course) to her father, yadda yadda. She was very nervous. It reminded me of the carefulness of arguments with people who are now exes; making sure not to tell the other person how to feel, making sure not to assume a stance of defensiveness when no wrong has been done, that whole chihuahua. He'll probably still call, so I told her the important things to remember are that she has nothing to apologize for, nothing to make excuses for, but also no obligation to give him a "detailed report." Show neither neck nor teeth.

Good grief, why am I the one who feels like he needs a drink?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Salut, sir. I will raise a glass. That all sounds ridiculous and you've got my sympathies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just glad people agreed, to be honest. There was really a moment before I posted/vented where I thought, "Wait, is this okay to the rest of the world?"

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

support and sympathy, Tep--and everybody else.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 June 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, families can be ridiculous.

It reminded me of the carefulness of arguments with people who are now exes; making sure not to tell the other person how to feel, making sure not to assume a stance of defensiveness when no wrong has been done, that whole chihuahua.

This sounded sooooo familiar. It makes me very happy that I'm actually getting along with my parents pretty well lately, despite other bullshit in my life.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Email effective. Situation evidently resolved. Apparently the catalyst here was the impending sale of stocks he put in her name some time ago, and which he wanted to be used to pay off her student loans -- thinking that undergraduate student loan accumulation (you know, the Staffords, the couple grand a year) would be comparable to graduate loan accumulation (... ha). They, um, won't be. A conversation followed in which L. had to explain that, no, she can't just stop taking out loans, since that's the real income: her "paycheck" isn't even enough to cover rent, much less anything beyond that.

Much grumbling etc. "But I thought loans were just for kids from poor families" etc.

If I had a nickel for every time I had to explain that the reason grad student loans max out so high is because they're the default income source -- that the students without them are nearly always a) gainfully employed outside of academia and just getting a Master's in gimme-a-raise; b) living off spousal income; c) born to wealth; or d) people who'll never finish their degree and end up looking wistfully back at it until sometime in their 40s ...

... well, then I could pay off my loans.

It is resolved so far as I can tell. The stock thing reminds me of similar disagreements with my (non-custodial) father, who thought that because he had put money aside for my college tuition before I was born -- it was a tax thing, he gained from it -- he could veto my choice of school, guilt trip me about my non-technical major, etc. That's the problem with putting money in other peoples' names: you put it somewhere where no one is entitled to it; the person who created it can't spend it, and the person who spends it didn't do anything for it. Nasty propriety issues bloom. I've put money aside for a few people, but I'm hoping by the time they get it I won't still think of it as mine.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that's the right idea, to not think of it as yours. It's a gift, or an investment in that person that may or may not pay the type of dividends you'd like. It's not a downpayment on that person's freewill.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 June 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Tonight I went and saw the last show of one of my favorite local bands, Br0nwyn. They're friends of mine -- they were the band we went with on our first tour. Sniff. They played one of their "golden oldies" and I got all nostalgiac. But one of them is off to New York to become famous or something; it's exciting for her but sad for us.

Also I reek of smoke.

Also I am totally annoyed about this other thing.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 June 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I went to this hipster bar near me (the one where M_m_s played) because they were having an "art mini golf" installation which sounded like it would be fun but it was mostly lame, mostly because everything tried to hard and the music was too loud and blehhhh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 June 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope the other thing isn't too serious Chris.
Tep that sounds like a pretty harsh situ to be in. I hope the email has really done the trick. For what it's worth I completely agree with everything you have said. You are adults, even if you were spending your money on dwarf porn *raises eyebrow* then you still wouldn't have to justify it. I really think I must be the luckiest mofo around here as my family pretty much leave me to whatever I want to do, but are still there for me (& help me out constantly) which is so reassuring.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Damnit. As I said yesterday, the lady I work with left to go on maternity leave & my boss isn't in today & the f@#king receptionist announces to me that she has a half day & just f@#king expects me to answer the door & deal with everything. I f@#king hate, it is not my job why the f@#k should I do it? She doesn't cover my job when I've got the afternoon off. F@#k, f@#k, f@#k. ever get the feeling it's gonna be one of those days?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

No, the other thing isn't that serious at all -- it's a local music festival, which a friend of mine is helping to organize, and which is, really, going very badly. They've made a lot of what I think are poor decisions, and they've managed to be divisive when they intended to bring the diverse scenes together. Or, I guess they intended that -- their motives have been ill-defined, which is part of the problem.

Anyway, so I spent some time arguing with this friend, and what's really frustrating is that none of the organizers -- including my friend -- seem to want to listen to what anyone is saying, and are too involved in "oh I've worked my butt off for this, you should be grateful that this is happening, if you had something to say you should have been at the meetings and been involved with it" to be aware of what they're doing.

It's all kind of sad. The festival should have been really cool -- heck, it might still be really cool -- but it's created some bad blood. And that's too bad.

So on the one hand it's not really serious, and on the other hand, sigh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's serious if it's bothering you though. Maybe try to take a step back from it & let them get on with things. It sounds like they are not prepared to take advice from anyone, even friends, so there isn't much you can do. hell just leave 'em to it & enjoy it if it's good & laff your ass off if it isn't. Sometimes ppl cannot be helped or given advice!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm wondering if I can jog/walk/swim off my paunchy tummy in three weeks?

My holiday is drawing near and I can't see my bikini bottoms for my bloaty stomach. I got right into press-ups cause the rest of me looks fine, but I can't see the results for the flab. Bah grrr.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe some harcore sit ups could help you out Rumpy. It certainly cannot hurt for sure! Try to drink plenty of water too to help flush out your system innit!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Like thirty at a time? When I lie down to do them I get awfully comfy and go into dormouse mode. But I'm determined this time, I don't want a flap. Shudder.

Ha ha, flappy bits remind me of a story my mum told me. She's an auxilliary in a geriatric ward and she noticed that one of the old women was walking stooped over when before she'd had quite good posture. "What's up? Is your back sore?" asked mum. "Naw hen," the wee woman said, "thon other nurse tucked my boobs into my trousers."

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

As many as you can manage. Look I'm not promising perfect results, I'm just saying that it can't hurt! Just make sure you bend your knees with your feet flat on the floor & pull up with your tummy, not your neck, otherwise you can hurt yourself.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ta Pink, I'll go home and get tore in. Wouldn't hurt to give up the curry diet as well I guess.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, well there's always that chica!! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Any tittwis'ers around today?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 783 (12 new answers, 991 total)

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ho hum, the more I write of this essay the more there is to write. How can that be?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that a good thing or a bad thing, Archel?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

people here are stinky. dude on the elevator reeks of patchouli, and i can't tell if another coworker is wearing too much perfume or just smells of lunchtime booze.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so not emotionally equipped to be at work today.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww what'sup Huk-El?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I just have so many other things I'd rather be doing. And my alienation from my coworkers has been feeling particularly acute lately, and it's my own fault for not making more of an effort to socialize with them, but it's also their own fault for being assholes I can't stand to socialize with.
I miss the old intern.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been jonesing for beer since 8am. the weather is calling for a hefeweizen.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been on my own all day. The boss is out. Wait, did I already say that?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

patchouli is the most heinous of heinous stinks.
you must fire this coworker immediately¡

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

set his face on fire!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

he's not a coworker; i think he works for one of the other companies in this building.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

then you have diplomatic immunity!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

morally, if not legally.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's time for my morning break already!

Well, it's Hawaiin shirt day/ Hawaiin bbq day here, so no one is being very productive. I brought pina coloda mixes and my blender, but wasn't allowed to bring alcohol. boo hoo, but what can ya do?

I need to do a million tummy crunches. I wonder if I can get a nice tummy in 25 days? That's when I'm going back to VA to visit my family. And we'll be going to a water park one day. :-D

Cheer up, Chris & Huck! Glad things are looking up, Tep!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"aaah next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day....sooooo."

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you saying that Hawaiians are lazy? You racist devil, Sarah.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

God help me, I just joined a gym. And signed up for extra consultations and stuff! erh, I'm tired already. Probably all the more reason I should've joined...

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

always so behind these days. . .

glad you got that sorted out tep. good thing about having next-to-nothing parents is that they're never up in your shit. they don't even know you have shit!

running around like a madwoman these days, sweating balls i don't even have in my a/c-less car. we had massive storms tues. and weds. and hundreds of thousands of people were/still are without electricity. H. was out for two days and even (!) Sh1ps had to close down for a day. :( Luckily mine stayed on.

You're all welcome to come to shows tonight and tomorrow with me. tomorrow night there might be a lil' 23 yr old trying to kick my ass. most amusing.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Good luck, Sarah! I haven't been a gym member for quite a while now, but I remember it really made me feel a lot healthier and good about myself in general.

Yes, Chris. And I'm sure no one in my office has seen Office Space either. They thought up this method of torture all on their own. NO ONE looks good in a Hawaiin shirt. At least this is what I keep telling myself. On the other hand, it is a party and free food and what's wrong with that?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Sarah we can be Stomach Crunch buddies! I've got three weeks to make my gut toe the line, if it fails I'm divorcing it.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Woo! I haven't done sit-ups in...too long. I haven't been to a gym in about a year either. I'd rather do martial arts stuff since I get really bored on the cardio machines, but that will have to wait a little while.

Sarah, I hope you have kiwi fruits at your office, I love them.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

So, as ILComics are aware, I went to the library last night. Not only did I get some comics books, but I also got two self-help comedy books. One of them "How to be a Working Comedian" or something features genuine interviews with top stars, and my personal stand-up idols, Carrot Top and Jeff Foxworthy!
The other, Comedy Writing Secrets, is better, but not necessarily intentionally. It's written by Melvin Helitzer and contains such great well, here:
http://lookinside2-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35lerE4jD7FMqgm7l+vG299epNzzNPGD3bsUeOZ23gEt2UTlG98jE4/OQS

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

huck, please tell me yr kidding about carrot top and jeff foxworthy.

i don't want to hear about you active chicas. my gut grows larger each day. embrace the belly!

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam, if only I was.
http://lookinside2-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35lepWUIdOqbUzvj/CWsLXLsA5KI/jySXFNQrivCcHqDXei2XsbKIbyc7y

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam, Don't worry - I haven't actually done any of these supposed crunches yet.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I am the only person at my desk! Everyone is running errands or cooking in the breakroom! This is madness! That's it, I'm going to crush some ice...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd read the Tommy Smothers & Mickey Dolenz bits

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna say, don't diss on the Dolenz. If you think he's not a comic genius, you haven't watched Head often enough.

But boy, does that book look like a stinker.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

they don't have a pig on a spit do they?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I particularly squirmed at reading "It's Show Business, Not Show Art."
Basically the book tells you not to be original.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'll pick you up around 7:30?

Um, yeah, hi....?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't want to hear about you active chicas. my gut grows larger each day. embrace the belly!

word, sistah.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(n.b. I am not active yet. The thing that is most likely to make me go to the gym is the fact that they now have my money. Off to sit in front of the Simpsons.)

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit. The power went out THREE times last night. Something to do with a pigeon.
Maybe the reason I'm so lonely and alienated from everyone is because I'm such a dirtbag.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

That's okay, I didn't cry for too long.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(xp--Sam, don't read. okay, more xp. Luna, don't read)
Doing crunches during commercial breaks works well, if you watch a lot of TV. Except that there's nothing on TV lately. I do three different kinds--the basic ones, the ones where you're crunching more to the side to do your obliques (sides of yr abs), and the things where you lift your feet to the ceiling to get your lower abs. Those ones kind of suck actually. But they all do work. (but oh shit I am so far from active it isn't even funny)

The really hard part is staying away from too many curries, I would imagine.

It's a gorgeous sunny day, and I'm all happy because I'm getting netflix movies in the mail today. And because my parents are being cool in a situation when I didn't expect them to be. Rah.

I want a pina colada. That sounds so good...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe the reason I'm so lonely and alienated from everyone is because I'm such a dirtbag.

See, this is good material, here.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

My intense misery, the world's Friday night (actually Monday night) yukathon.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://pepperbay.com/sedan/emmett.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Buck up Huk! You can't be as sad as the cult of Emmett Kelly. My friend's mom put Emmett Kelly figurines in their Christmas snowscape this year. He threatened to dwarf the Paris Opera House (and no, I don't know what that has to do with Xmas either...)

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a sore-ish throat and feel a bit lethargic. But! It is almost time for lunch. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I just finished reading the Complete Peanuts Volume 1, so this whole "misery=comedy" meme is on my mind.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the beauty of it is that, really, if I'm honest with myself, my misery is entirely my own doing, so, yeah, it's fucking hilarious. I think partly, I'm only in my life for the jokes.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

And the masturbation.

Or is that just me?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I only masturbate for the jokes.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and the tingly feeling.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I came up with an interesting, if somewhat macabre, idea for a short story that I may actually try and write, despite hating nearly everything that I write.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The nice thing about spending hours stuffing envelopes is that you can think about other things, like macabre short story ideas.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it involve someone poisoning people via poison on envelope glue? Because it's been done.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

does it center around a guy who goes apeshit after having to stuff envelopes for 8 hours?

xpost

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Or does it involve someone mailing his own heart to himself, only to get it back marked "insufficient postage"?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, oooh, or howabout a big black talking bird.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I too must be here only for the jokes and masturbation since the two constitute about 95% of my daily life.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It has nothing to do with envelopes. I'm afraid to think about it too much because a lot of times if I think of a good idea, I plan it out too much before I get started and then by the time I actually try and start writing, I'm already bored of it and it never happens. So I'm trying to think about other things.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 4 June 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear God:

We've figured it out. Thanks for everything,
the world.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Now find some girl to sing the first verse and you've got yourself a hit!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 June 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a girl? I thought it was supposed to be Partridge as a child, all innocent like. Before he discovered the sacred ritual of laughter and self-abuse.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I always thought it was a young boy.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 4 June 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I not only thought it was a girl, I had a thing for her -- the way you do when it's just a voice -- when I was a teenager!

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 4 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, I would do research, but I don't want to shatter your illusions.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 4 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like a sadder version of the Three's Company opening credits, y'know, the part on the bumper cars.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Research always shatters my erotic illusions :(

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what you guys are talking about.

I am stuffed and sleepy. Everyone loved my pina coladas. They wanted the recipe. ha ha - well, you dump it out of this can, add ice and water (or rum) and VOILA!

I'm ready to go home now but I have to sit at my desk for another hour and a half.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX sucks at the moment, thanks to Jon fucking Williams and arseholes posting pictures of same.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gunna start more video game threads, then.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. Okay.

(if you do, will you talk about Conflict: Desert Storm I and II please?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The opening verse was sung by "a ten-year-old girl called Jasmine Veillette, who'd been drafted in by Rundgren", according to the XTC FAQ.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

So I don't know if you feel better that your erotic energies were placed on a 10-year-old girl rather than, you know, a boy, Tep.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Huh. Shows what I know.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

HA! See, and she'd totally be legal now.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(Besides, I was only like 4 years older than her when I had the crush, the song came out ages ago.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(Wait, that's how much older I am than my girlfriend. MAYBE IT WAS MY GIRLFRIEND.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

plus, i found out that Larry B. Scott(from Revenge of the Nerds & Fear of a Black Hat) does the voice of the (black) Paladin in Diablo II.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

is he lizze maguire's dad?
I just got home and I am sitting here in my underwear, because it's hot at last, and I have cold beer and I am listening to this months CDs from the national mag I'm writing for and I'm going to get a lot of work done tonight.
So, Joe RL Phelps. Pretty good stuff.
Okay, one review done.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 June 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

well my wife and i just had a blow out. she made fun of my sister.
my sister had a tumor on her spine when she was born, so she walks a bit funny. and my fucking wife made some smart ass remark about it. well i let her have it. and she left. um, what do i do.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

honestly i don't care that she left. what she said was really cruel. fuck.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Um.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it's better that she left for a bit to cool off? You know, rather than... something else?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I just spoke to her. She's coming home and we are going to talk. I mean I really lost my shit and scared her. I didn't raise a hand or anything like that, but I went nuts verbally.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

*good thoughts for Chris V, again*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Even if you don't think you're wrong, you should probably apologize. It will make you happier in the long run.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

when in the midst of an ugly nasty fight I told my ex-now-current that my Aunt X thought I shouldn't get back with him b/c primarily he gave me an STD he said "Fuck your Aunt X!" Although we have made up and I know he said it out of anger it still haunts my mind and I hate him for it.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 5 June 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, I think you can and should apologise for how angry you got, especially if you became scary, but you can and should also expect an apology from her. Good luck with it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 June 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, how is the Joel RL Phelps? You know that he used to be in Silkworm back in the day, right? I have a couple of his solo albums and they are very good, but extremely depressing, so I hardly ever listen to them.

― NA (Nick A.), Saturday, 5 June 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

all is well. we both apologized. she's never seen me like that, but it was the one thing that really set me off. alls good, back to baby making today!... Thanks folks for the words.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Saturday, 5 June 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

NA, I really like it. Yeah, depressing as fuck. I knew that about Silkworm. I saw them when they were opening for Shellac. Geez, that was forever ago.
Apparently, he lives in Canada now. Right now I'm listening to it again, there's lots of really wonderful non-trad percussion on it. Steel drums, some kinda big metal clang. I'm trying to find a less explicit, less boneheaded way of saying that it sounds like a cross between Mtn Gtz and Shellac. Like there's that very similar to J.D. lyrical/vocal tack that sometimes seems as though he's singing an ancient brit isles folk song, but then there's that whomp whomp whomp precision and volume. It's a sort of mechanical violence. Or threat there of.
And in case anyone's curious, NA's correct, it is Joel, not Joe, as I had in my original post.

― Huk-L, Saturday, 5 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

well...

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 5 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't even notice the typo so I wasn't consciously correcting you. Hmm, metallic clang, sounds like he's getting louder with each new album. That's good. I might have to check it out once I get pizzaid.

― NA (Nick A.), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, hello everyone. I wish I could remember what all of you have been up to since the last time I checked out one of these threads, but seeing as though it was several hours ago that I read through this thread and there are already two hundred or so messages, I can't recall what most of you guys have been up to aside from the usual and the not-quite-so usual. Me, I'm trying as hard as I can to reclaim some sort of normal sleeping pattern and at the same time experiencing a hell of a lot of unusual stress, which I have related to the few people I chat with on a regular basis (partly due to timing, quite honestly enough). Hopefully most of this stress has been relieved by certain decisions that were made shortly after these aforementioned chats. Sorry for being vague; I will try to explain more later, when everything's been cleared up. :)

Oh yeah, and I have recently experienced things here on ILE that have highlighted even more for me the deep separation between myself and practically everyone else here on this forum. I keep on coming here because of the high intellectual levels of the regulars herein, but that's pretty much it. Aside from this thread, of course, where I feel a bit less "sore thumb"-ish. So thanks, you guys.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 6 June 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee, just pretend like you know what you're talking about. Pretend to the death that you know what you're talking about. That is how the game is played.

My life: I need to look for a job, and I need to find a new house. This summer will be no fun. Also I need to finish up with the packaging on my new album and put that out, as well as the DVD of all the Saskatchewan videos. And I have a few performances coming up. And hopefully a California/Nevada tour in late July. That part will be pretty fun.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Rah for the Dee! :-)

Casuistry, of course, will rock.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 June 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

so far, have barely doen anythign today, aside from unload the PA speakers and computer desk that I had to move from my parents house. Diablo has eaten up all the other time.

Now i am at work, trying to do overtime and do something productive for once.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so there's not as much non-trad percussion on this as I made it seem earlier. Mainly just the two examples I stated. And when I said "metallic clang", I was being literal.
Dee, it's fun to have you around. Sometimes you're like the older sibling who got out but periodically still comes around to see how us kids are making out. It's like a Neil Simon play.
So, I wrote more jokes today. I'll probably write a lot more tomorrow. I think I'm funnier just when I'm hanging out and talking. When I've got something to work with, y'know, like somebody says something like "Plate of Shrimp" or "plate" or "shrimp" or something. Coming up with comedy, pulling it from the void of my imagination, it feels forced and supernatural. But not in a good way, in a Frankenstein's Monster way. Too much of the old Spike Jones. I've also been listening on and off to an Al Franken audio book.

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 June 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I love me some Casuistry Chris and Ned! Thank you, sweeties.

Chris, I would love to purchase one of those DVDs, and I know for darn sure that your DVD won't cost an arm and a leg like, oh, I don't know, certain other musical artists I shall not mention. ;) So I will be able to pick one up, happily enough. Good luck with everything.

(xpost) Older sibling? What a humorous visual! Though this comes from someone who once declared all of you her grandchildren, so YMMV. Thanks to you too, Huck/Huk-L.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 7 June 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea what YMMV means, You Make Me Veal? Young Men Marrying Vera? You're My Mastodon Vest? Yarmulka Mensch Meshuggeneh Volken? Yikes! Mike Missed Voltron!? Yuletide Merriment Means Vultures? Yon Marilyn Manson Votive?
(this game is fun)

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 June 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, this is too much fun for me to reveal what YMMV means. But I'll do so anyway. YMMV = "your mileage may vary".

"You're My Mastodon Vest", indeed.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 7 June 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, haven't you read about Mort Sahl? Don't your stand-up books recommend that you just tell a story and let the humor come from that? Remember that it doesn't matter what the story is, you will eventually get to the humorous part.

Very few people can get away with the Stephen Wright thing.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, the stand-up books are all about viva la difference. BUt I do think I need to unwind some of my jokes. I think I might have them too tautly wound. So that I'm almost not interested in telling the story, just performing the mathmatic function of setup:joke. Howev, I think that once I get more comfortable on stage, I'll be able to do more adlibbing and stuff and that's when I'll really start kicking ass.
Also, I'm on the fence about doing karate poses when a joke goes over well. I think people would dig that, but I'm not sure if it's something I want to allow to become my signature.

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 June 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Just say no.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Has everything smoothed over Chris V?

NA can testify we were both grumpy at each other yesterday for a while - it happens sometimes. Also, shit happens. He didn't say anything about my sisters though.

I'm listening to the Zombies on my computer at work, trying to drown out the LITE station (ie: Shania Twain and Hootie).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

hello

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.totalonlinesolution.com/~elvispre/elvis%20karate/elvis%20karate%2012.JPG

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just found out that since we moved, we haven't had any contents insurance! Stupid ppl, they don't have a clue what they're doing!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

there he is folks...the last samurai.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You not busy making babies today Chris?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know... what is WITH people wasting perfectly good baby-making time by spending it on the interweb instead?

I am in a good old mood today, having finished my paper, proofread someone else's, AND spent a lot of time drinking in the sun. Only two hours of work left before I can go and have more sun, and a home-cooked dinner.

Ooh, near excitement just then when some drunken students tried to climb on our roof to retrieve a football or something. Since the building is pretty much falling down, thrilling scenes could have ensued. My coworker did her scary German thing though and they have scarpered.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

So I filed a story on Friday and it didn't run in Saturday's paper, and I've just found it's been purged from the system.
Should I assume the worst and conclude that this is all part of a vast conspiracy to ruin my life, or should I assume to probable that the ppl in charge are just incompetent assholes?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't make babies at work!

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know... what is WITH people wasting perfectly good baby-making time by spending it at work instead? ;)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ergo, you need to find a new job.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, I'd assume the latter. If only because most people ARE incompetent arseholes, so it's a highly probable explanation.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i even brought out the Teddy Pendergrass.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You're right, Archel.
But it makes me feel important to imagine someone else cares enough to sabotage my career.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

hey if i get the new job i've been interviewing for we can make babies in the bathroom at lunch as i'll be working with her.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe, in honor of its conception, you could name the resulting offspring Stall.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

or Pad Dispenser.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, will I hold you up in the highest most esteem the day you post the birth certificate of Pad Dispenser McGee on TITTWIS Pt. 28: That Was No Ladle, That's My Knife!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

*sniggers* making babies in your lunch hour would be kinda cool!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

wahoo!
I thought I had blown another deadline, and would be filing late again, but I'm actually early!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I WOULD BE MUCH HAPPIER IF SOMEONE HADN'T HIT MY PARKED CAR IN A PARKING LOT ON SATURDAY AND NOT LEFT ME A NOTE AND I HAVE A $500 DEDUCTIBLE WHICH I CAN'T PAY AND I HATE PEOPLE, K THX BYE.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

BOO to anonymous LA hit+run artists.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the most god-fucking-awful case of strep throat and I can't get no relief.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you been kissing Ned?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

More like Godzilla.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, you old dog!

I am in A SLING and god knows how long I'll have to wear it. I dislocated my left shoulder playing cricket yesterday and the nurse who saw me said, when I explained that it pops out quite often (though seldom this painfully), that I'll probably need surgery on it sooner rather than later.

Which isn't the end of the world - best to correct it, I guess - but summer is when I do SPORT and EXERCISE and I don't want to be out of action for the next three months!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I had that surgery a couple years ago, Mark - it was painful, but it helped and I no longer have a trick shoulder.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I love 'Sight of You', by the Pale Saints, and Ride.

― the palefox, Monday, 7 June 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh, Aimee, tell me more - any info very welcome! Especially what it entails, recovery times etc. I'm glad it worked for you.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.drstoller.com/education_bankart.htm

I had physical therapy for about 10 weeks, I think - maybe 12, before I got full range of motion back. I think you only HAVE to go for 8 weeks, but my doctor is paranoid.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)


Have you been kissing Ned?

Hey! Although I did have a slightly sore throat/minor sinus infection I'm just getting over...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

He acts like it would be a bad thing...

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, given that Jeanne is well aware I'm a typical stinky boy, I would have thought her kissing desires would be directed elsewhere to start with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

hello

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

hey.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I see your point, Ned.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, didn't mean that the way it related to ned's post. i don ot want to kiss either him or jeanne, even though i know them both to be very nice people (oh alright, maybe the cheek). just thought i'd say hello.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, this makes THREE car accidents that I've had in the last little over a year - none of which were my fault - and that fucking sucks.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

How do, Dave.

Luna is cursed by cars! That sucks. :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

that's not good. were you in the care or was it a bump and run

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

in the car, obviously

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

See above.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

You were on top of the car?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Um... yeah. In a sequinned jumpsuit. I was practicing my Evil Kneivel routine.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

whitesnake video....

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Here we go again, not on our own.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

My kissing desires at the moment --> I wish to deep-throat an iceberg.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, don't you think slings are kinda cute, though? I guess maybe that doesn't matter so much to you.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Feel better, Jeanne. Am using the iceberg to sit and chill on. How bout I set up an airlift of antibiotics?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.pdn.ac.lk/socs/smeditation/iceb.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for that Luna! And Chris, looking cute is u+k - I'm not sure these strange foamy pink slings rank high on the sexiness scale.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Slings are sort of cute, but constantly dislocating shoulders aren't.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It was honestly more painful than I expected, Mark, but I had a torn rotator cuff, and they had to take up some slack in the muscle, too, so I really didn't know what to expect (and anyway, judge everything by the pain of childbirth). It takes some doing, a lot of physio therapy, but it's better once it's done.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's the broken bird syndrome. Especially since it looks temporary. Also it gives someone an easy way to introduce themselves to you -- "So, what happened?" Etc., etc. I say work it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My arm just feels like it's not attached properly - I'm convinced there's an extra 1/2 inch of give that shouldn't be there, hence the ease of dislocation. having had a look at that website, maybe I have rotator cuff issues too.

(was it expensive?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, I'm not going to be working anything! I'm sure sgs doesn't think it ups my sex appeal in any case :/

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Well dammit son, isn't that just what I said about its cutifying effects not being all that important to you?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, I want to look cute for *you* :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, the amount of sex appeal is all relative.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

My insurance covered most of it; I think I only had to pay about $500, all up.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Leave his mom out of this!

xpost

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, are you on OKCupid?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

if anybody needs a little music to pump you up, check here

works great for providing a soundtrack for mundane tasks.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've had too much coffee today.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Or not enough?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I need some but I feel like I'm living within the movie "Slacker" these days. Getting up and showered and dressed and getting out the door and walking down the street and going into the coffee place and blah blah blah. Too much work for a cup of coffee!

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You and me both, Bryan.

(Good to see ya, BTW)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Luna, a belated kiss for you. (Thx for the iceberg.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I just looked through the jobs at craigslist and got all depressed.

Then I looked through the houses and felt a smidge better.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Why? The houses are actually affordable?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think what I need is more food in my gut to soak up the coffee.
I ate big last night. Went over to my parents', my dad wasn't there though, but ate good food and had birthday cake.
Why is it that the day after I eat a lot, I'm always really hungry?
Is it my body telling me something? "Hey jerk, being full of food is a good idea."
I didn't know craigslist was good for anything but smutty haikus.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. There are plenty of interesting looking houses for us to move into, not so many interesting looking jobs.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, during the dotcom boom, Craigslist became famous as the place to get a dotcom job. My bandmate posted her resume there in 1999 (in the Bay Area) and got a job offer, like, the same day.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

In 1999, anyone could do that. Four years on, and most dotcomers are busily flipping burgers....if they're lucky.

I cry for the state of the job market.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, they've got TO and MTL Craigslists. Cool.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't feel like doing any work. Which is usually ok, but today I actually have stuff I'm supposed to be doing.
Reading that NYC thread made me really hungry for soy tacos.
My new amp, which I bought less than a month ago, blew up when I plugged it in yesterday. Fortunately, since I bought it less than a month ago, it doesn't seem like it will be much of a hassle to return. It still sucked.
Soy tacos.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I need 2 right hand ! Submissive, Exotic Personal Assistants to run or assist my home/office in Manhattan New York. Do paper work, make phone calls, gather information, run errands, pass out
flyers, occassional shopping and light cooking and cleaning.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

2 right hands? What do they do with their left? (Had to be said)

Dominatrix maids, apply here....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think, in the context of S&M valets, I am exotic.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Granted.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

bah. what a boring day. this is the kinda day to make Cookie Monster cunnilingus jokes.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What a coincidence, Chris! That's what I was gonna say!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Wondertwin powers, activate!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think when I get home, I'm just going to eat until time for me to go to sleep, or until we run out of food, whichever happens first.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

YOM OM OM

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, so basically NA accidentally told Kingfish's joke for him. Great.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you ladeez & gentlemint! you've been a wonderful audience! goodnight!

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It could have been worse.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I have secured a rental car and am mildly sated.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Wahey! At long as it moves and the brakes squeal (intentionally, when you want 'em to) then, good enough.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a PT Cruiser... it was either that or the Hummer, and I don't have the paycheck to keep that bitch in gas.

Shame, too, I can think of lots of people I'd like to run over.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. Preferably while dragging them over road spikes.

You, in a Hummer? Righteous idea, especially as you can steamroll over the snail-speed wretches.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

But at 8 miles to the gallon, ummmmno.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Alright, so the idea wasn't cost effective. Revenge fantasies cost zilch....and burn zero calories.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus, I don't need to drive a hummer to prove my manhood, you know? My balls are just fine, thank you.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

My car just broke. The brakes seem to be smoking, smelling of burning & erm well not working. :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

from the latest fun update from senior management, about my company's move to a new building(bought & paid for by the parent corporation):

Note: Hanging anything on the walls or writing on chairs is considered destruction of Bank property.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Writing on chairs?
If we can't do that, well, what the hell did we fight the civil war for?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The volume on our clock radio somehow got turned all the way down last night, so we woke up an hour later than usual. This means we had to get ready for work in 15 minutes; therefore, no shower for Nick. Yay! The flipside is that I feel somewhat better-rested than usual, thanks to the extra hour of sleep.
Also: free Chinese food at work today!

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

So, I had a gig last night.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you rock?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I did. And there were even people there to be rocked.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

im going to the beach this weekend. im bringing my guitar and i am going to write songs about clams.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

hello

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Table for how many?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Afternoon Dave and Pink - hope your car is ok PP!

Morning everyone else.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yikes, have just printed out my final draft. No going back now...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Congrats, Archel.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris V, are you imagining surf rock songs or something more Margaritaville like? Did you see Club Dread?

I'm just waking up now basically. It's 10 til 10.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay Archel! I love that feeling of holding the newly-printed completed essay. Even better is casting it off to be read and graded and thus not having it hanging over my head any more.

I have seen multiple shirtless men today--this is some kind of summer-has-begun milestone. It was a milestone I could've done without seeing.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

just like UPS guys in shorts, like The Onion once wrote.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I have to have the willpower to take it home and NOT read it through AGAIN before I hand it in tomorrow. If there are typos, or worse errors, it is now officially too damn late.

I saw my neighbour shirtless yesterday. It was... not horrific.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/0394881826.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

...or bus drivers in short sleeves. postal workers in short sleeves *and* shorts. What made this stand out in my mind was not the shirtless construction worker, but the nonchalant shirtless man walking with his flip-flop and tube-top-wearing wife, both pushing a stroller.
(xxxpost?)

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I was dreading what shirtless horror that pic was going to reveal as it was loading. Now I'm just... confused.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

He's not wearing a shirt.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Or anything else.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, how are your eyes? How about the goggles? Do they do nothing?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

that's why it's called a birthday suit.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

He's wearing a lot of fur though. Although naked + flaming cake is a little dangerous.

(On another essay note, what would y'all make of the following: "Hand in review panel submissions by June 2nd." I mean, having received that in an e-mail, when would you turn in your work?)

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I had to get my shirt off yesterday at the hospital. If I do need surgery I'm losing 14 pounds and having a full body wax :(

x-post - um, June 2nd, before midnight.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The eyes are fine. One of them seems to have improved slightly. (??) They did put goggles on me. I wasn't trusting my responses to the optometrist's questions.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i am wearing shorts, shortsleeves shirt and flip-flops

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

ergo it is going to piss it down with rain in the next hour or so

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you guys know that Boz Scaggs turns 60 today?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

And Nancy Sinatra is 64.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

mick hucknall is 44.we have just got the last edition of the evening standard in the office. the front page headline is "london roasts at 32 degrees". what sort of leading headline is that? it's like putting the words "its wet" as a front-page splash any other day. still, i've been living dangerously, staring into the sun for as long as possible.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(there is a big picture of the sun on the front page of the evening standard - it is so far having no ill effect on my vision)

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

But how does it affect the housing market?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

mick hucknall's age has no known direct effect on property values.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Barbara Bush is a spry 79.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Joan Rivers, 71
Jerry Stiller, 75

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran fame is 42

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank Lloyd Wright is 137.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

What age is Michael Flatley? Dave? Dave? DAVE?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yesterday, on the way home, I saw this construction guy driving a huge crane down the street, shirtless, standing up, steering with one hand and holding on to a bar above him with the other. And this wasn't the type of truck you're supposed to stand up in either.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

michael flatley is 45 and as i knew that, i am not going to slam a door on my own head repeatedly. goodnight.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonnie Tyler and Griffen Dunne are both 51.
Rob Platus is 49.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

why would you kneel on the wet grass if you did not want to get your knees wet and you didnt have to kneel on the grass for any reason!???

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Rob Platus is 39. Sorry.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

for the sheer thrill of it?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Also celebrating a birthday today...

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

that was supposed to say i am "now" going to do the door-slamming thing

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think 'not' was the better choice, but it's your head. I just think it would hurt.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it did

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

less than knowing about michael flatley hurts me, though.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What's with all the talk about birthdays today?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

it's your fault

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. I thought maybe someone was trying to drop a hint or something.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Martin's birthday

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I know. I thought maybe someone might share Martin's birthday. I guess I'm wrong.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

happy b'day martin

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

hell if I know.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It might be somebody else's birthday too.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably is. Somewhere. We should have cake, just in case.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Cake would be nice.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

on a similar note, I'm going to try to get in good with the Kerry campaign, so that if/when he wins, I'll be named Ambassador to the Land of Dairy Queen.

i think that'd be pretty sweet. That or Costa Rica. Maybe Canada, too, but then there's all those trade relations you'd have to worry about, same with being Ambassador to Japan, which would no doubt get you the hookup on Lupin III action figures and hentai doujinshi, but there'd be all these responsibilities n' shit.

so, yeah. Land of Dairy Queen is my first choice, Costa Rica is my second.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I know! Ice cream, too?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My family is all either on the East Coast or the West Coast. Maybe I'll make my own cake.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay cake. I should be having some for lunch, I gather.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, Huck, but it's not my birthday until August. Way to "rally the troops", though!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

What's a guy gotta do to get a measly...

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, COZEN!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, is it your birthday?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

What tipped you off?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Birthday, squeaky wheel

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I have another thing to add to my list of "how to tell a band will suck":

asshole bands have asshole fans.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Their lead singer used to be the drummer in another band.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Birthday, Huck!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Their lead singer used to be the drummer in another band.

Nova Mob was a good band, tho.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, Jen and I got back from Alaska this past weekend, so I'm catching up with ILX now.

Alaska was amazing to see, and I always enjoy spending time with my whole family, so the trip was great. The only thing I could have done without is the 24 hour daylight this time of year. Made it hella hard for me to fall asleep on the nights we were camping. The rest of the time we stayed with my aunt or in a cabin, and both of those afforded much better light blockage.

We boarded Jen's cat while we were away because she is sick and needs to be given medication on a regular schedule, so we can't really leave her at home with a big bowl of food or anything like that. Sadly we weren't able to pick her up until Monday since we got home Saturday night, and the vet is closed on Sundays. Yesterday the vet called Jen a couple times to say that Godfrey was not doing well. (The doctor had also called a couple times while we were in Alaska.)

Godfrey died yesterday a little after 2:00 Pacific time. Jen left work early to go to the cat clinic and pick up the body, and we buried her in our backyard when she got home. We clipped several roses from our bushes to bury with her because she liked to chomp on flowers when she was alive.

The valuable lesson I learned is that it's very difficult to dig a hole when you're crying.

We are planning to get two new cats in the relatively near future, but Godfrey was a super cat and can't really be replaced. I've only known her for about 7 months... Jen lived with her for something like 11 years.

The sad thing was that, in addition to feeling upset about Godfrey, I was reminded of the four other cats in my life who have passed away. My family had three cats most of the time I was growing up, and the last of them died a few months or so ago. I think she was 18. The other two lived to be almost 19 and 20.

I want to adopt some cats who are already young adults because most people want to adopt kittens and the older cats in shelters are often overlooked and get stuck there or worse.

My sister's hedgehog apparently died yesterday as well.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

THat's tough, Martin. Condolescences. Cats are such great companions. They've pretty much ruined people for me.


Nova Mob was a good band, tho.
And so was Bewitched (with Bob Bert).
So I'm wrong. Old and wrong.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno if Huck's gonna smack me for saying this, but Foo Fighters have their moments...

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

That's sad news, Martin.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, okay, I'm wrong. I get the idea. I was thinking of one specific example, and stupidly tried to pass it off as a general rule (tom E. li). I'll never make a sweeping generalization again.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and thanks, Huck... I am well-suited as a cat person. I will never be bothered by another request for back-scratching from a cat, though I would always be bothered having to walk a dog.

The one bright side to it is that we can have more than one cat now. We weren't really able to get a second or third cat with Godfrey because she's kind of afriad of and not very friendly toward other cats and, more importantly, because she ate special food (some with medication in it). So it would have been hard to make sure another cat didn't eat the special food or ingest the meds. Also would have been tougher to make sure she stayed on her diet if other cat food were available somewhere.

Having grown up in a multiple cat household, I am particularly fond of the way cats who live together for a long time keep each other company. It always kind of made me sad that Godfrey didn't have a cat pal with whom to lie in the sun of the window or to help lick the spots on her head that are hard to clean with the tongue-paw-head method.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

So sorry to hear about Godfrey, Martin. It's always so so sad to lose a pet.

I want to adopt some cats who are already young adults because most people want to adopt kittens and the older cats in shelters are often overlooked and get stuck there or worse.

Yesyesyes! You're very correct with that. Kittens get snapped right up (I used to work at a shelter), and there are wonderfully sweet adult cats that end up having long stays (thankfully, we weren't a shelter that had to resort to euthanasia very often). People are more hesitant to adopt adult pets because they're afraid of behavior problems. More often than not, adult cats are left at the shelter because of allergies, or a move, or a divorce, or an elderly person not being able to care for the pet anymore.

Also, happy birthday Martin Skidmore (was that yesterday or today, I have no concept of time...) and Huck!!!!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the benefits to my house breaking up is that the cats won't be terrorizing each other any more. Or, more specifically, my one roommate's cat, who is 9, decided she couldn't stand the other roommate's cat, who is now about 2 or so, and so made life hell for the little kitty, who couldn't understand why she was so hated. My cat, who is 5 and friendly and dumb, kinda got caught in the crossfire. She was Poland, so to speak.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

With adult cats at least you can often know in advance what kinda personality they have. Like whether they get along well with other cats, like sitting on laps better than finding hidey-holes behind furniture, etc.

I intend to take forever at the shelter and interviewing every cat there before making a decision. I know I will feel bad that I can't take all of them home, but I will have to stay objective and find the best cats for the job. Luckily, Jen will be with me. She is often much better at objectivity, though her one weakness regarding said objectivity very well may be cats.

There are many cats who roam our neighborhood. Some have collars and obviously belong to a neighbor somewhere, and others don't, so I dunno if they are strays or not. Ever since yesterday, Jen's been saying we should find one of the cats in the neighborhood and grab him up to give him a hug. (This is why I wonder about her being objective on the subject. I, on the other hand, have already grabbed up several of the neighborhood cats and given then scratches on different occasions. I did that even while Godfrey was still alive, as all cats are good and worth of some scratches.)

Yeah Chris, my younger brother has two cats with a decent age gap between them who terrorize each other. Well, really the younger one (who is nuts) likes to terrorize the older one (who has a hair trigger temper with regard to things like another cat batting at her tail).

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Our cats don't really get along. Their only interactions involve what I hope is play-fighting. Other than that, they try to avoid each other. My cat is scared of Sarah's cat, but she's scared of a lot of other stuff too.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

in my post above

interviewing = interview
worth = worthy

-ed.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah... The sad stuff from yesterday almost made me forget:

The first night we were in Alaska, we camped in Homer, and we sent my youngest brother out with my mom and sister to get some alcohol to drink for the evening (because my brother was most likely to get the right stuff).

So that evening about half of my family was drinking Mickey's or OE, and I got to see my dad drinkin a 40 for the first time. Genius.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

watching cats play-fight is really entertaining.
I think one of my friend's cats is gay. He LOVES having his butt rubbed. My other friend was giving him some heavy petting and my friend-the-owner said "dude, I think he's about to squirt."

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this what we've been reduced to?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"reduced"

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope you're not talkin about my dad drinkin a 40, luna.

Because that was genius.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course not, Martin. That IS genius.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, you like having your butt rubbed too, that doesn't make you gay.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost as good as the time I got high with my dad, martin

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

how long have you been watching, Chris?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My pops is going to Bonnaroo with my two sisters and one of my brothers this year, though I don't know if that means anything other than that my dad has generally decent taste in music. ;)

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello. Table for how many?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Here is a picture of the mighty Godfrey being the queen of the white couch and all of the pillows a few months ago just before we moved into our new house. It makes me sad, but I am glad to have some good pictures.

http://www.mushrush.com/randomfat/godfreyoncouch.jpg

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Godfrey looked like one cocky cat

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Godfrey was a little misunderstood because her mellow, resting expression usually looked testy or territorial. She was a bit cocky because she was the queen of the house and the owner or two humans who gave her scratches almost any time she wanted. The only time they did not kowtow to her wishes was when she meowed at the front door to be let out to roam the yard.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"owner or" = "owner of," obv

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

awww kitty.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, I'm more of a dog person but I LOVE all animals. I cannot get a dog at the moment because my flat is very small and both my boyfriend and I work full time. He comes from a family of cat lovers and from being around them I've learnt to love them.

We are both out of the house for about six hours a day - would a cat be able to cope with our absence better than a dog would?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Or should I tell my boss I'm going part time in order to get a pet?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

oh snap, i'd better hurry up and contribute my bit(s) on "What I've Done Today/This Week to Better Help Our Customers Or Some Shit" to the supervisors today, or else i'll miss participating in teh drawing!

the drawing prizes are, as of the email i got 10 minutes ago:

-2 sets of 2 tickets to Disco Mania, KC and The Sunshine Band and Village People (June 10) DTE Energy Music Theater
-2 sets of 2 tickets to Rock Never Stops, Vince Neil, RATT and Slaughter (June 11) DTE Energy Music Theater

how could i ever miss THOSE?

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post Yes to Rumpy on cats not needing as much attention during the day.

I'm so sorry, martin. I've had to see a lot of our cats die in my life. We just had lots of them growing up. At one point, when I lived on a farm, we had 13 cats. And like I've mentioned before, whenever we would see a dead cat in the road, my mom would always have me get out of the car and pull it to the side (and no, we weren't the ones that hit the cats). She also would make my sisters and I bury our own cats when they died. I guess she thought it would help us cope.

But enough sadness. I'm fortunate that both my cat and Nick's are still young (5 and 3) and house cats and should be with us for many more years to come.

I'm glad you are able to turn your thoughts to getting a new kitty. The new one will cheer you up.

Speaking of back scratches, my kitty has given me massages a few times. She's done the kitty march on my back. That was the best. "Ooh! A little to the left!"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

My old cat used to sit on my lap and practise her claw work on my leg. It sorta tickled and sorta hurt, but I knew she was just being affectionate. Same as when she would bring birds into the house.
I have to do photocopying this morning. It could drag on into the afternoon.
If I had known this was what awaited me today, I would have not showed up.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Awww, the old intern (the one I liked) sent a h-b message through some dude who I don't particularly like.
I don't know how she even knew, but I'm touched.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Not unappropriately I hope...

I think I'll listen to the Amps now.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Or inappropriately...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Nonappropriately.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

aappropriately.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Topo Gigo.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

hello

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, we don't have any tables available right now, but you're welcome to wait in the bar...

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll just have a beer to start, thanks, and see how I feel.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of back scratches, my kitty has given me massages a few times. She's done the kitty march on my back.

My younger brother has two cats, and one of them does this regularly if you lie on your stomach in bed long enough. While my brother was on vacation a year or so ago I looked after his cats, checking in every other day to empty the litterbox and make sure the water was fresh and food stocked. One Friday after work I stopped by his place exhausted and decided to take a small nap in his bed after I took care of the cats. His cat Cranks woke me up doing the kneading cat walk on my shoulders. I thought she was getting ready to lie down on my back, but I was there for a good 10 minutes getting a cat backrub before she decided to stop and go lie down by my head.

Rumpy, cats can handle it if you're gone all day. It's especially nice if you have at least one window they can easily look out of, but cats like to sleep a lot and most of them don't mind being alone. In fact many of them need some alone time even when you're there. To me, the biggest difference between cats and dogs is the fact that when you come home tired from work, a cat will often greet you (or at least look up from his nap to acknowledge that you're home), but a dog will want to play or go for a walk immediately.

That's the reason I can't really handle owning and caring for a dog even though I like other people's dogs. I just can't deal with the jumping up and down when I'm tired.

Cat: "Hey, how was work? Let me know when you sit down so I can come sit by you." or "Oh, you're home. Cool. I'm going back to sleep."

Dog: "Yay! You're home! Let's go play! Let's go outside! Yay! You're home! Scratch my ear! Yay! Where's my ball!? Let's go outside!"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I FUCKING QUIT.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Again, Luna? What happened?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

how could i ever miss THOSE?

RATT and the Village People? That's nostalgia backfire.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

WHY does it have to be 95 in the frigging shade every day? As I type, tires (and people) are melting in the heat. Can't seem to chug enough H2O to keep myself hydrated today.

(Scusi, this heat is making me cranky)

Before my brain gets totally fried, bonjour, all....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so behind on this thread due to being away for a week that I was going to just leave it till another one was started. But I need your advice so I'll go back and try to catch up later.

My editor is running my kids story next week and she wants me to say I'm they're teacher in the story. I don't want to. I'm not sure if there's any real reason why I shouldn't but something tells me it's not a good idea. She doesn't see any problem. Should I go ahead and do it? Do it but use a different name (ie Samantha)? Or stand my ground and say no?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you using the kids' real names (presumably just their first names?)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Different name, at the most.

Or nothing at all, just in case.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

real first names. don't name the school but anyone who worked with me would know.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

A couple of the people I work with are incompetent assholes who are speaking to me as though I am an incompetent asshole.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Use Samantha.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Use your middle name, Sammy. Tis still your real name, so the school can't really complain. Most likely, your coworkers won't realise who it is, unless there is a pic to go with it.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Use my name.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the other concern is, hey, don't you want credit for your fine story?
that's probably the most compelling reason for using yr real name. (or it would be for me, since I'm hopelessly vain).

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

No Huck, that's not vain b/c that's one of my concerns as well. :) I'm still getting random compliments around town for my gamblers article. I don't everyone saying, "who the fuck is this samantha rider chick?"

Anyway Sarah doesn't see any problem with it. I had put some sociological stuff in there that we're cutting for space reasons so saying I'm their teacher might make up for that. She doesn't want it to seem like I just snatched these kids up from the mall.

I'm not sure what I think the district might object to. except for the fact that they're a huge scary poorly-run organization that probably wants to squash free expression from it's minions. i dunno.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yay! more tornados! life in the midwest is FUN!

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Alright I put it in, and told her to use my real name. Fuck it. There's really nothing in there they could object to but then DISD being such an illogical place to work, who knows what someone might come up with. If anything bad does happen as a result. . .hey, it'd just be a push out of a job I hate anyway. ;)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna say...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna hate myself for saying this, Sam, but you shouldn't care about getting dissed by DISD.
Oh yeah, here comes the self-loathing. Bring it on!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

no i agree. (why hate yourself for it?) but I also don't like leaving jobs when it's not my choice. ;)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(Because of the pun.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i didn't really see that.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

feel the burn!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

nb: I'm running around flexing and freaking like Macho Man Randy Savage (it's how I express self-hatred)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

awww, lookit the little wrestler

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm about to post a music related article on ILX. Or maybe ILM. But I hate ILM. IHILM.
OOOOOOOOO yeeeearrgh!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear, Huck.

This is the thread where I break in without having read the posts I hadn't read before and just state that I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY I AM LONELY and I'm about ready to crack.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 10 June 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(Sorry. I know all about making my own happiness and shit but it's really hard doing that when I've run out of some of the ingredients I'd need to do that.)

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 10 June 2004 06:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee you are plainly a great person and you should know that everyone on this thread likes to hear from and talk to you. Hang in there!

This place (work not ILE) has gone fucking crazy today. Students weeping, two best friends falling out and security getting involved... I blame Venus.

Wish I could go home and chill, but I have 2.5 hours more of work, then have to get driven out to buttfuck egypt to sell tickets/usher etc at some art event I nominally helped organise but couldn't care less about.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My car is mended for the princely sum of £221! I am so very skint at the moment. We're desperately trying to do all the right things, but there are always so many obstacles. *sigh*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee! Keep strong!
Archel! Fight the power! (I had no idea you live in Egypt!)
Pink! I have never heard "skint" before, but you used it in a way that illustrates its meaning, so I can now adopt it for daily use!

I'm gonna stop yelling now! Now.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was younger I thought I could stand on my own
It wasn't easy, I stood like a man made of stone


But there was something about you
I want you to know
It brought a change over me
It's startin' to show
I've got this feelin' inside
gotta have ya, have ya, ain't no good to hide


It isn't easy
To show what I'm feeling inside, girl
It isn't easy
I know, when you believe in a man like me


When I get angry I say things I don't wanna say
I really mean it, I don't want to leave you this way


I couldn't help my reaction
I want you to know
I lose control over you
I just wantcha to know
Got this feeling inside
gotta have ya, have ya, ain't no good to hide

It isn't easy
To show what I'm feeling inside, girl
It isn't easy
I k now, when you believe in a man like me


But there was something about you
I want you to know
It brought a change over me
It's startin' to show
I got this feelin' inside, gotta have you, have you
Ain't no good to hide.

It isn't easy
To show what I'm feeling inside, girl
It isn't easy
I know, to believe in a man like me
Like me, can'tch see
I gotta gotta have you

But there was something about
Yeah there was something about you.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink, Do you have a move-in date yet on the house? I'm sorry if you've already mentioned it & I didn't notice.


(* current song playing on my computer: Mag1c Mountain by Blonde R3dhead)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee, a solution is AIM and email - I'm sure there are lots of people (like probably everyone on this thread) who would always be pleased to talk to you. I know it's not the same as friends to be with, but it's far better than nothing.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you know what I hate? When I type out a long post, hit submit, get a server not found error, hit back, and the post is gone.

I was saying that I don't understand why everyone acts shocked when I respond No to the quesiton, "You mean you can't just pick the meat out?"

current song on playlist: D0mino by Aph3x tw1n

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Espcially when it's meatloaf.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you know what I hate? When I type out a long post, hit submit, get a server not found error, hit back, and the post is gone.

For long posts, I got into the habit of copying the whole post to the clipboard right before I submit... just in case.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee, have you checked out OKCupid.com yet?

Huck: I couldn't connect last night, if you know what I mean.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I do what Martin M. does.

Dee, you know I'd love to have you up here for a weekend. I'd come down there but that long of a drive w/out AC is deadly.

Still re-writing bits of my story with my editor. We had to re-do the last paragraph b/c I used the word 'bitch'. She didn't want to deal with the letters saying teachers shouldn't talk like that. argh.

I also cleaned out my fridge today. yay me.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yo peepz

― kephm, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does everyone think I care about their sex lives!?!?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

zpeep oy!

― kephm, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait, that's not what you meant at all, is it, Casuistry?
You didn't miss much. I did play a track off the new Beastie Boys, and some Joel RL Phelps and some HW music and Mystikal and I dedicated the last song to "That special someone in my life who recently celebrated a birthday."

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

.oy ,drow

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam you were right. Turning off images was the best thing ILE thing I ever did.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got back from my "break." During said break I go back into the warehouse area, a bunch of co-workers smoke, and everyone talks about how horrible the world is. Sometimes, they say some really sick things (well, things I disagree with anyway). Plus, I'm against this whole the-world-is-sinful-and-disgusting perspective in general. (For god-fearing people, there is quite a lack of appreciation!) I've sat through lots of (to me) extremist statements without doing anything. Then there was that one time I just got up and walked away.

Anyway, today I mouthed off a little. Everyone was talking about homosexuality (and having sex with dogs in the same breath) and how yeah, they can do what they want, but they can also get Aids if they want... And then they went into the usual bit about how homosexuality is pushed in front of everyone's faces on TV (damn media) and it is disgusting and uncalled for.

That's when I lost it. Keep in mind, I've heard this said, especially here, a million times before.

I said, "Homosexuals have had heterosexuality pushed in front of their faces their whole lives."

*cringe*

But little did I know homosexuality is a choice and no one is born that way.

And then I made some more flaming statements about animal rights (in response to the question, "Well, Sarah, what I want to know is why did god give us animals if he didn't want us to eat them?", I responded that they was a very egocentric perspective) and activism in general (it's not pointless, and supporting one cause doesn't mean you believe it's better than all other causes ever). In the end, though, I think I mostly just shocked some people. They can talk about me behind my back, but whatevs. I'm sick of looking like I agree with this shit.

< / rant >

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah is a badass. And I mean that most sincerely. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, if I were workin where you worked, I'd probably already have come in really early and taken a shit on somebody's desk. I'm amazed you kept your mouth shut in the face of that as long as you apparently have.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

You GO girl!!!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, ask the person who came up with that 'animals for eating' comment when they're going to roast their pet dog/cat. Go into detail.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

In honour of Sarah's awesome outspokenness and RC's awesome music and Chris V's penchant for posting lyrics:

Let's Go Get Stoned

Lyrics: Ashford, Simpson, Armstead
Music: Ashford, Simpson, Armstead

Originally recorded by Ray Charles.

Let's go get stoned
Let's go get stoned
When your baby won't let you in
Got a few pennies, a bottle of gin
Just call your buddy on the telephone
Let's go get stoned

Let's go get stoned
Let's go get stoned
When you work so hard all the day long
And everything you do seems to go wrong
Just drop by my place on your way home
Let's go get stoned

It ain't no harm
You're takin just a taste
But don't blow your cool
and start messing up the place
It ain't no harm you're faking just a nip
But make sure you don't fall down bust your lip
Let's go get stoned
Let's go get stoned

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Better yet, just roast the kitty. Then say, "But that's what you said it was for!"

Huck, maybe your servers were overloaded!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Or maybe they just suck.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Better yet, just roast the kitty. Then say, "But that's what you said it was for!"

Hey, I like that idea. Come in tomorrow with something just unidentifiable enough in a sandwich and talk loudly about how poor Muffins passed on in the night but with her last kitty breath she loudly demanded that she be eaten because the Bible said so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep trying to paint happy pictures for Huck and he keeps pooping on them.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i do, however, think that God gave us popsicles so that we can eat them.

and have popsicle stick fights.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd rather go naked than eat popsicles. I'd really rather eat popsicles naked.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen pictures of that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, see, this one guy was in Nam, and he was talking directly afterwards about eating dog and how he enjoyed it. But thanks.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"And next you'll be eating children!"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen pictures of that.

I had to pay for college somehow.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, see, this one guy was in Nam

Sarah, if you really want to get this guy's goat, I can think of a handful of things you could say.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It was an interesting interpretation of the word "eat".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah sarah, save his goat from being devoured! act quick!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Why did God give us short-shorts and false eyelashes if he didn't want men to wear them?"

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You should ask him why he thinks God gave you a baseball bat and him an automobile.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the Good Lord gave you such an ass so that you could shake it, girl.

now shake it; shake for the Lord.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

shake shake shake

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

that'sa girl!

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

hee hee :-D

shake shake shake shake shake shake shake your booty, yeah!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

also, "Shake it for the Lord" is no doubt a lyric from some long lost Leonard Cohen song...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought it was a Spiritualized tune...

― Psychotic Episode, Friday, 11 June 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

no, that's "Shoot it for the Lord"

yes, it's very close, i admit...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 11 June 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah that sucks. I would hate having to face that shit all the time. It seems you always end up working with dicks with shitty opinions.
Dee - I didn't like your last post, I don't like to think of you like that. If there is anything I can do please feel free to get in touch. Although I fear not living over there, not having interweb access at home & being in a completely diff time zone, I'm gonna be of no use at all. :-( Try to stay happy pretty lady. *hugs*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

why do I have a feeling that the best part of the new Beastie Boys CD is going to be the cover?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no really? I've not really heard much of it, but I def like what I've heard so far.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only heard the single. And it's dismal. I love them but really, sometimes you've got to stop while you're ahead.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh i don't mind it. Oh & are we talking music on this thread Sam?? ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Their new hit is very much like old school rap, but it also really long and boring, methinks.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

no, we're not talking about music. we're talking about the new beastie boys. ;) had a long IM convo with my brother about it yesterday. They used to break new ground in rap with their sound(s) and their lyrics were clever and witty. This new single is neither. Hello Nasty was bad enough. They are breaking my heart.

I'll shut up now.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

If god had intended men not to lie with men, he'd have made us all magnetic or something so that we would repel our own gender. And he wouldn't have made the bum such an appetising place to put your cocker.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

well, in reality the nature-nurture arguments re sexuality are a lot more blurred than "born like it"/"chose it". when i get faced with the "they have a choice, it's disgusting" lobby (pretty rarely nowadays), i'll usually just give up and say: "well, it's no worse than choosing to be a fucking idiot is it?"

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Wtf? You two posting on the wrong thread or summit?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Related to Sarah's story about her work I think...

Things which are making today good: 1) bluetits are nesting in one of the wall-mounted ashtrays outside! 2) I got some photos back from the developer today and they are lovely 3) Matt's criminal records bureau check is complete so he can start his new job v v soon!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

If anyone wants to be my first gmailer, then my email address is my surname...

Archel, do you know a D3br4 Br0ught0n, btw?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooooh I see. damnit, I'm so confoosed today!

They all sounds great archel!

what is the deal with gmail huh? Why is it so fancy?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

it's raining and 53 deg F here.

two days ago, we had a tornado and 90-odd degree weather.

wooo.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I know the name Mark... can't immediately put her in context though?

What is gmail?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

nice! It's my dad's b/day today. he's so great & I love him to bits.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

On reflection, an ashtray is a really stupid place to nest.

Happy birthday Pinkpanther's dad! Yay!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I was about to ask.(about the gmail)
Also, what's up!
New Beasties (their publicity asks that they be called "B-Boys" rather than "Beasties." The answer is NO.) is okay, it's not that awful. It has some cool parts. But I remember when every new Beastie Boys album was, like, insane and changed everything.
I'm not sure if it's necessarily anything wrong with them, or if the world has simply caught up (and maybe surpassed).

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh another good thing: I have a £20 Next voucher which I am going to spend after work on an item of birthday clothing :)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Archie - she sent a letter to us asking for representation, and one of the things she mentioned to get our interest was that she'd been published in Buzzw0rds.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I posted this on the Urban/suburban/rural thread, but I did a google search on the town where I was born and discovered that they have something called the Cracker Heritage Festival. Just FYI.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, tis the other Buzzw0rds I think. But I have maybe heard her name around.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

a new beastie boys album ranks up there with the least exciting things i can think of under any circumstances.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

that logo is disturbing. the one of a man with a whip on a horse. I never really thought about that particular implication of "cracker" I always thought it had something to do with cracking corn (and I don't care) or cracked wheat or short for crackerjacks (because they have a prize inside).

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It is Friday and I would rather be at home sleeping, like all good people. Oh well, it's going to be a crackerjack weekend of shows, friends, FAPs and food. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what's going on this weekend. I'm kind of curious to go see experimental turntablist Philip Jeck on Saturday night, but I doubt Sarah wants to go. I feel like going to a loud rock show. I wonder who's playing at the Empty Bottle. Oh yeah, US Maple tomorrow. Maybe that?

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a thread on g-mail. it's the new (in beta) email service from google. already having an address is currently a geeky point of pride.

The Boys haven't done anything innovative in a while. Ill Communication was Check Yr Head Pt 2 and Hello Nasty, well with the exception of a couple of tracks it just sucked. I'm not expecting anything better with this but I'll get it anyway. I think they're using up all their creative/innovative energies on their own projects (BS 2000 anybody) and are just making records together to satisfy contracts and fans. boring.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry to be mean, but have the Beastie Boys really been exciting since License to Ill? Pretty much all the interesting stuff on Paul's Boutique was the result of the Dust Bros., and everything since then has been treading water. But what do I know?

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the lyrics are excellent on PB. and Check Yr Head was great too. after that, no.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I am so indie rock. I think I was channeling Yanc3y there for a second. I like bits of Check Yr Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty too. "What'cha Want?" (sp?) might be my favorite BB song.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I apologize for bringing this up here. For me it's less music then, I don't know, watching yr idols slip.

Yes I often contradict myself. This either makes me a. complex or b. an asshole, depending on who you ask.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I got every Beastie Boys album except Hello Nasty as they were released, which breaks down, my age-wise as follows:
License to Ill: 9
Paul's Boutique: 12
Check Your Head: 15
Ill Communication: 17

I was very impressionable, which is why each one was a revolution for me. Each one (Ill Communication less so, but still a little) changed the way I listened to music. It's sorta like a recent thread on Mad Magazine, where a lot of people were like "Yo, Mad jumped the shark when I turned 13." Or not, that's something different. More like Sonic Youth.
I don't have a point, but to the group of people I grew up with the Beastie Boys were probably the closest we had to the Beatles in terms of whatever zeitgeist.
Even though I had no interest in buying HN, I still liked hearing "Intergalactic" in clubs for ass-shaking purposes. Especially in light of what else was being played in Saskatchewan night clubs in 1998.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Brian Mulroney is such a jerk.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Except for LTI I've bought them all on the day of their release (in CD and vinyl formats). I'm a bit older than you as LTI came out in when I was junior high.

PB I remember distinctly, it was the summer before my sophmore year. I had to get my mom to buy it b/c they wouldn't sell it to me with the explicit label. Best album ever. As most everyone knows I have a tattoo of it on my back. The one I'm most proud of, that and Elliot's tat.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. You have that street scene on your back?
I remember the first time I played PB I was confused as fuck. It took me months to even start to get it.
CYH, on the other hand, seemed to more coincide with stuff I was already into, so it was like a confirmation of something.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

not the whole scene, just the sign. ;)

I did want to get the NYC skyline behind it and their silhouettes underneath it. But time and money moved on and away.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh okay, I get it now.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

cleaning house is boring.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hell yes it is. i keep hoping that if I ignore it, it'll clean itself. then I remember that I'm not Cinderella.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno if I'm in the minority or not, but Check Your Head is the one that had the most impact on me for some reason. Mind you, both of the two before it got played to death when I first got them as well. (I think I'm about Sam's age... I was in 6th grade when LTI came out.

I dunno... Maybe CYH did the most for me cause I started learning how to play guitar not too long after I got it.

I got no beef with Ill Communication really, and I actually liked at least half of Hello Nasty.

Haven't heard anything from the new one but the single... blech.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

During the summer after I graduated high school, I would stay up really late with the TV on in the background, just waiting for them to play the "Sabotage" video...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i have to clean b/c basiclly left to my own devices I'm very slovenly. But a good friend is coming to stay with me today and I'd like it to be presentable.

H. is not too pleased about this since a couple of times after she moved back from NYC we went out and really, um, partied, if you know what I mean. I'm done with that stuff (haven't been near it almost 5 mths) and she says she is too. Whatever. He never likes my friends.

But she's basically homeless and we've been friends for 7 years so of course I give her my couch. we might look for a place together. i'm tired of living in these pseudo-projects.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

We gotta clean up quickly too... Jen and I have kinda been putting off the rest of the unpacking (not to mention retrieving all the shit from our rented storage space) since we moved into the house, but her mom's coming to visit for July 4th weekend, and we kinda need to whip the house into shape before she arrives.

I've been meaning to clean the bathroom now for about a week. Bah.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate hate cleaning. especially the bathroom. :(

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd rather be cleaning my bathroom than be at work. Except for the getting paid part.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd rather someone be at work cleaning my house.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind the stuff that you only have to do every month or two that much (clean the bathroom, e.g.). It's the stuff like washing dishes and washing clothes that seems to pile up as soon as you finish it that I can't stand.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I don't mind cleaning the bathroom. It's one of the few rooms you can clean relatively quickly, and it almost never requires figuring out where the hell to put stuff after dismantling a clutter-pile. Like, bathrooms get dirty, but they don't get in disarray. So all you gotta do is scrub and wipe... never rearrange.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd rather be naked, eating a popsicle.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. (What are we talking about?)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

If I'm going to be naked, can it be quality ice cream?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it matter?(x-post)

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Evertime I hear the tinkle of an Ice Cream Truck's bells, I drop trou.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hush, you. xpost

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Good morning.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It's afternoon!!! (to me, and that's all that matters)

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Make me! :p

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Look, Luna, if you wanna do it-do it, just come out and say so. I mean, honestly.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I can do it. I'll put my ass into it.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and I want to, too.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Relax, don't do it, etc.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't "do it." Do "do it-do it."

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I will.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

My bathroom is the most depressing room in this shithole so I hate going in there at all. No hot water comes out of the sink tap. The faucet on the hot water in the shower is fucked and I'm never sure if I'm going to be able to turn it on. The tub is so old they painted it white to cover up the holes in the porcelin and now paint is always peeling up. The toilet stops up nearly every time you use it. And now there's a 2ft X 2ft hole in the ceiling above the shower.
A big chunk of it fell in the tub because of a leak from the bathroom upstairs. They've come in and removed the fallen drywall and that's it. That was three weeks ago. Yes I've been harrassing the manager about this but like I said this place is one step away from the projects. (Actually the projects down the street are newer and *way* nicer than where I live.)

*Phew*

Just the tub left.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

do it.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

do it.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

do it til you're satisfied.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm getting progressively sicker by the minute. My throat is sore, my voice is going and my head is woozy.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

You're in love!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Or you've been making out with Ned and/or Jeanne.

Bastard.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

My mouth is slightly on fire from these chewy ginger candies that I CANNOT STOP EATING. Holy crap they're good. They taste like chewy ginger snaps. They're called, imaginatively I thought, 'ginger chews' and they're in a little green bag and are $1.99 at Trader Joe's. Go forth and get them. Now.

http://www.senhealth.com/vsite/vimagesite/images/jpg/0,11410,4822-135306-35640-0-product,00.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sweet-hot soft ginger candy. Natural, stimulating and delicious!" Does that describe the candy or Luna?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"sweet-hot soft"

dammit xpostie

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Shucks, you'll make me blush.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

shit, I am so sick.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Huck. Go home early.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, you need to hurry up and get better for the weekend! The only good thing about being sick is missing work.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Luna, those are indeed the best thing ever and I gorge myself sick on them.

Sick as a Huck!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you seen the ginger apple ones? I need to get some.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to be addicted to an Asian brand of those, but the Ginger People ones are better -- taste's about the same, but the texture's better.

Good for motion sickness and other mild nausea, too.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Why mess with perfection?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

How many bags can I eat before I vomit?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Three.

You should take the candies OUT of the bag, though, they taste better.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh.

Dammit, where were you yesterday?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Indiana still, I'm afraid.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you could have said something.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep, you should come to Chicago tonight. We'll go boozin'.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to Lafayette tonight! Which is not as exciting as Chicago, but closer.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no voice and a fever.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

GO HOME.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck you too.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, that's not how you meant it, is it?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

As someone who is still on antibiotics for strep throat, I strongly suggest you go see a doctor. This stuff is a nightmare.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, no...

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought you were heckling me. People usually say things like that when I'm onstage.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

HUCK GO HOME BUT YOU'RE FUNNY TOO

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Or you've been making out with Ned and/or Jeanne.

I wonder if there's a combined bot of us? The Jeaned Bot. All of Jeanne's smarts, looks and sass plus my ability to...uh...hm. I can hum.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

No way are you combining with Jeanne before I get to.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the second yeast infection in past two months straight on the heels of my second bacterial infection in the same time period.

i'm sure you guys didn't want to know that but yeah, talking about physical hell and all.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam -- take acidophilous (sp) pills. Luna -- hit it-hit it.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah I've been thinking of that. but it won't eradicate it will it? isn't it just preventive?

I've been to the gyno twice ($30 a pop) and spent $94 on medication. ARRRGHHHHH. If this last $34 tube of goop doesn't work, I'm going to rip it all out. I swear I will.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

$30 a "pop"? what kind of gyno are you seeing???

― oops (Oops), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

that's my copay. i have crappy insurance.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Drive my car
Into the oooooooooooCEANNNNNN

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

F / A / Bb

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

the voice is completely gone. and soon, so am I. looks like I'm cancelling my plans to do heavy lifting and grunting tonight.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Cancel the yodelathon!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hkth (that's what it sounds like when I try to speak)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

There's your new name next time it's time to change, Huck.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

now I have an excuse to do nothing but watch cartoons for the next 48 hours.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

PIXIES IN NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone's been in the sugar bowl.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

That's something to do tonight... eat lots of sugar. ACtually, I feel like a margarita.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Two and a half beers later (plus chicken taquitos) and all is right with the world...

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(Sam--I emailed you)

I had Needle Training this morning. I'm on this drug that's such a fucking big deal that I have to fill out stacks and stacks of forms and had to go to special training and now I have an instructional video (gonna have to inject myself daily with this weird contraption with a digital reading and various parts that need put together... seems needlessly complicated to me). Gah. After all this, I hope it helps or something.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 11 June 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yikes! how do you feel about sticking yourself.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 11 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind needles, so it's not that big a deal really. The paperwork hurts more...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 11 June 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, papercuts are nasty.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 11 June 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

What does one eat when one is not hungry but feels the nagging realization that one must eat for purely biological reasons, but nothing sounds good?

― Psychotic Episode (Psychotic Episode), Saturday, 12 June 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, before I get to reading any updates here, I have to post this:

RIP Ronald Reagan. I saw both the official state funeral and more private burial service on C-SPAN today, only taking time to run a few errands in the time between, and I was really touched and moved by everything I saw and heard.

I feel better now. I would post something on the appropriate thread, but after reading said thread a few days ago and realizing that it was nothing more than an excuse for certain individuals to be asshole-ish about a president I have fond memories of (um, can we say "thanks a lot for helping perpetuate the notion deep within me that I'm not supposed to be here"?), I have no choice but to post it here.

Now I can read the thread updates.

(Preemptive hugs to everyone who helped cheer me up, BTW.)

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Here are some responses to things I missed:

1.  I adore dogs. I like cats, sure, but I find them a bit too aloof for me to get to really adore. On the other hand, I adore my little baby puppy girl to the point where I continue to call her my "little baby puppy girl" even though she's seven years old.

2.  Sam, congrats on choosing the right direction here re: your story. I fail to see why the ISD would find any problem with your story, but then again, you brought up the whole "illogical" point, but oh well. Screw 'em if they'll be ludicrous here.

Here are some other responses:

3.  Archel, Huck, Martin, Casuistry Chris, Sam, and Pink, you five guys are just THE BEST. THE. BEST. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to cheer this little needy bird up. *hugest hugs in the world* Hope I can cheer you guys up too.

4.  Pink and luna, hope things get better for you two, both wrt car woes and job woes, respectively.

5.  You know, Chris V, you've made me want to listen to the Level 42 song "Something About You". Ack, I don't even know if I have it in my HD! Ha, first thought -- "Do I have it on MP3?" *shakes head* Anyway, I feel like listening to that song, dammit.

6.  Martin, I have a ton of ILXors on my AIM buddy list, but end up only IMing with a handful of individuals. I've been wanting to e-mail various individuals to let them know things I've been wanting to let them know, but haven't been following up on that.

7.  Cas-- uh, Minor Thirds Chris, I've been on OKCupid for almost a week (perpetual bridge leaper here) and have to date gotten zilch in terms of responses. (My ID is manycoloredhalo if you're interested in a sympathy message send. *grins*)

8.  Sam, I'm terribly sorry for missing out on the beginning of the month opportunity, when you were in Austin. It was just, um, a particularly adventurous time around here. I will be meeting up with you soon enough, though; I am committed to doing that.

9.  Sarah, I am so proud of you for standing up for what's right like that. No one in the 21st century should be saying the back-ass-wards things that those co-workers of you said (esp about homosexuality). They are utterly and completely without a clue.

10. Sam (again), I can understand your disappointment re: "watching yr idols slip". My favorite celeb guy in the world used to be, um, Nick Rhodes, but it is no longer because I no longer view him as this awesome personality I used to but rather a little sad.

11. Huck, Sam (again), and Julia, I'm so sorry to hear of your recent illnesses. Hopefully you guys are busily taking care of yourselves (that even a word?) and making sure that your ailments last as short a period of time as humanly possible.

(J, you know what I mean. Hopefully.)

12. Psychotic Episode, unfortunately I rarely have that problem. I would like to, but don't. If indeed I did have that problem, I'd probably think to eat something like lettuce, carrots, and a little cheese, washed down with water, and a pear as dessert.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

*whew*

That took awhile to compose.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only gotten one message, and it was from someone pretty lame (but in Newfoundland, but I guess that's not really a reason to get excited about someone -- it's hardly Saskatoon!). And RickyT never wrote me back. Bah.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Feynman! I had no idea!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm very, very sick. Fever, coughing, general aches in every single place of my body where there are muscles.
But a few people I ran into today (i still had shit to do) who saw my stand-up last Monday said they really liked it and asked when I was gonna be doing it again.
I'm spending the weekend, what's left of it, and earlier parts, watching the Looney Tunes DVD set. With all the violence put back in! Drinking lots of tea (echinecea) and trying to not move as the littlest effort makes me break out in the sweats. Which is probably good right? Eliminate the sickness? Maybe I should go to the gym tomorrow.

Hope everybody's having fun and not leaking copious amounts of fluids out they nose.

― Huk-L, Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

So I had another reading tonight. I read the first 20 minutes of my 4-hour piece as part of this experimental dance/music/poetry deal. So here's the cool part: there were all these kids unexpectedly in the audience. About 7 of them, 8-12 years old. And, it turns out, they really enjoyed my piece. They were all very polite and came up to me to tell me how much they liked it and they said some smart things about the piece (and the other pieces as well). It was great!

Some of the adults were nice too but seriously, why are adults so bad at coming up to you after a performance if they liked it? Especially in a small venue. It's crazy. Sigh.

Actually this morning I went to a 4yo's birthday party (the one who played on Sask) and it was weird to see him interact with other kids. I am used to him hanging with adults, I think it suits him better. I think perhaps kids should stay the fuck away from other kids. I know I tried my best to do that when I was a kid, and I think it worked out for the best.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Huck feel better. Hire an escort to massage you.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Or I guess a masseuse.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you imagine how upset an escort would be if I hired her JUST for a massage? She'd probably cut my throat. I mean, what a waste of her time! Like, she's not in this business to spend time with lonely men suffering terrible colds. I mean, she wants to make some goddamn money!
Still, it's an idea worth investigating. I mean, if she's there, I might as well get a tug. I can't see the allure of getting a bj with a condom on. I think that would be distasteful (mostly for her).
I also just found a job posting in NYC for a position I'm exquisitely qualified for and for a company I've half-heartedly dreamed of working for since I was 5 (though certainly not in this capacity).
I'm definitely going to apply. And certainly, NYC would be a much better locale to build my standup career than here in Unfunnytown, SK.
Who knows, maybe I'll be at the next NYCFAP!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, I *completely* sympathize with the 'would rather talk to adults when I was a kid' stance.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know. I think it's important for kids to learn how to relate to other people their age. If only so that the first 12 years of schooling aren't complete hell.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you going to work for Kaufman-Astoria studios? I used to live up the street from them!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, if all the kids avoided each other and schools didn't encourage socialization then school would rock!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, not the K-A Studios. It's a company most famous for a secretly Canadian defender of the American Way and a rich dude who dresses up like a rodent to wage class warfare, and its parent company is most famous for another rodent who stole all his best lines from Groucho Marx. Or for a few years ago merging with anything that moved. But the position is frighteningly similar to what I'm doing now, it's like my destiny or something.

You've got a point there, about the schools. Maybe we should open the TITWISer Skinner Box School for Children.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Nickelodeon?

I will humbly suggest that you don't want to live in NYC.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Why not? Isn't it basically the same as Regina, only with more traffic?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

You know how living in Regina is like being anally raped? Imagine if Regina had a horsecock.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

And if it suffered from priapism.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

But can you get a decent sandwich after 5 p.m. in NYC? You can't in Regina.
I thought New York was EXACTLY like 1000 Clowns starring Jason Robards. Or your choice of Woody Allen movies.

― Huck, Monday, 14 June 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

BUMP
Ooh good luck with that Huck.
Thanks Dee, you're such a sweetie. *hugs*
Sam, I can sympathise, hope you get well soon.
Julia, gosh that sounds pretty harsh. Hope you are ok & coping hun. *hugs*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

dee you amaze me b/c you do what I do not have the concentration to do, you respond to everyone. bless you.

In other news (besides that I should be in bed) I HAVE A FAN CLUB!

These two folx I got into a stupid 30 minute IM fight with week before last have decided that I'm worthy of a whole blog worth of hatred. Keep in mind that of all the people contributing here, only one have I ever met (he was my 'boyfriendster' from last summer for those of you keeping track). One other, sAbr!na, I've chatted a bit with online. the others. .. don't know them from adam.

since "the fight" I've restrained from reading matth3w or sAbr!na's blogs b/c I figured they'd say shit about me and i just wasn't intrested. but i was bored tonight and checked them and lo and behold this is what I found:

http://dearsusan.blogspot.com/

brilliant huh? I'm actually kind of flattered that strangers have so much energy to hate me. Damn, I must be hot shit.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You're flattered by that?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Monday, guys. Hope you are on the mend, Huck, and that everyone else is doing ok.

I spent half on Saturday in A&E, which was delightful. I'd woken up almost unable to move and in total agony - turns out I have a torticollis which is basically a contracted muscle in the neck. They couldn't do much at the hospital except give me drugs and some advice. Thankfully it does seem to be getting better, although that could be just the painkillers. Since I NEVER take painkillers I think they are having a stronger effect and I feel a bit woozy... I am at work today but am not allowed to lift anything and have to take screen breaks to wiggle my shoulders around a lot.

That on top of the football result last night means I will not be putting the weekend down as one of my greatest ever...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww archel, get better soon!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You're flattered by that?

haha, I'm flattered that near strangers find me so worth their time to build a whole site about me. Keep in mind these people barely know me (only one of them actually does) and while in the three weeks since our "blow-out" (if you can call an AIM fight such) I haven't even felt the need to check out their blogs.

Meanwhile they started a whole blog about me and recruited their friends. and are updating it more regularly than I update my own blog.

To know that you make that big of an impression on someone, negative or positive. . . well at least I know I'm impressive.

A more accurate statement would be that I'm highly amused by this. I hope they keep it up.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish they'd given me one of those foam collar things at the hospital, it would help with getting sympathy at work... but they said being able to move it will actually do it more good. Time for my aftrenoon pills...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

You can have my now-redundant sling if you like, Archie.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

There has been quite a catalogue of illness and injury on this thread really, hasn't there?

(I have just emailed you btw Mark.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I managed to roll the sofa over my toe at the w/e breaking the nail & making it bleed & burn my arm on a saucepan. May I join the club?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

blah-blah-blah judge a person blah-blah-blah friends blah-blah-blah enemies.
translation: congrats, Sam.

Good luck Archel. Hope the healing goes well. When you mentioned the the foam collar upthread (for reasons that will become evident in a moment) I visualized on of those conical dog collars. I was, yeah, I bet you'd get sympathy at work, maybe you could even talk your coworkers to lick you, since the collar, y'know, blocks that.

In personal news, I am really stoned. On the cold medication. Things are starting to clear up, but I still feel like complete crap. Just in less places than before.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh... not sure whether I would have had urgent licking requirements during work time anyway Huck, but thanks! Can tell you're recovering well...

PP: you can only join the club if you can do/say something stupid due to medication.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

But wouldn't it just be nice sometimes to be licked by your coworkers?
I can't think of any of my coworkers who I would like to be licked by, nor whom I would like to lick. But that's me. Surely, your coworkers are all sexy.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I can think of... three coworkers who I wouldn't turn down a lick from, I suppose.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh gosh. I think the worst thing about this medication is that it keeps your nose from constantly running by completely dehydrating you. I'm parched. Somebody pour me a daquiri!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

My god, Sam, that site is awful. (You have a song written about you?!)

I'm avoiding taking breaks with my co-workers today, because I feel like being in a good mood. They don't always have huge political discussions, but they do tend to talk about how sad the world is, which is no fun.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

In better news, tonight I get to see McLusky!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

And when you introduce yourself they'll be gobsmacked, realize that they named themselves after you in honor, and dedicate all their future efforts to you (as well as giving you their royalties).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Which should provide a healthy early retirement for you in a third world country of your choice.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the middle of June and yet I use the space heater in my cubicle every single day. Yet another reason work can suck it dry.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone brought in pralines today and my co-workers had never had them before! They tried them and were like, "Ick! It's like sugar was melted and then watered down! Gross!" They lack the refined appreciation for pralines I got growing up in the South.

I can't believe it's only an hour until lunchtime! Boo ya!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel, please recover quickly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahhhh!
The medicine I took at 7 a.m. is wearing off! I should have brought more to work. I'm so stupid. Here comes the misery! Sniveling, sniffling, and oooooooooh mama.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There are other cities where you can get sammiches, Huck.

Archel, I almost asked on ILB, but what does "A&E" mean? It's a cable channel where I come from...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

But are there other cities where:

I'll tip the newsboy
I'll get a shine
I'll ride this dream
to the end of the line
I'm goin places
I'll take a ride
Up to the Riverside
I'll take NY
I'll let it happen
I'll pop the cork
tear off the wrappin'
I'll make a splash on the Hudson
that's how I will arrive
Hey, do you have two tens for a five?
Roll out the carpet
Strike up the band
break into the best
champagne when I land
Beat the parade drum
hit all the bars
I want the moon and stars
But I'll take NY
I'll make it happen
Blow out the candlels
tear off the wrappin'
And I know someday
they'll have to name a street after me
right next door to old Franklin D

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My god, Sam, that site is awful. (You have a song written about you?!)

Yes, apparently some people have nothing better to do than expend their creative energy hating me. I'm glad I can inspire someone though.

I just woke up after staying up all night with my friend watching the warriors and trainspotting and taking xanax. arrgghh. now i have to hurry and shower cause i promised to take my other friend to work. On the way home from seeing harry potter his car died in the middle of the intersection getting on the highway. we think it's the transmission.

there's no better way to spend a broiling TX afternoon than on the side of the road waiting for a tow truck as people honk and glare at you. yay!

stay healthy people. you're falling apart.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

it's gunna storm today!

in other news, this weekend was spent playing too much Knights of the Old Republic, and taking pics of Jucifer at the show on saturday night. Amber was dressed as this odd version of Native American garb, only featuring light blue spandex leggings.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Huck, I think you can do all those things in Poughkeepsie.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

How was that show, Kingfish? I like their cd, but haven't seen them play.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Do sinuses serve any purpose?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

They can make your voice funny.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to manually remove my boss's lungs and bludgeon her with them.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

But other than, nothing, right? Except they get all clogged up sometimes. So it would be perfectly acceptable if I just had them removed so that I didn't have to go through this terrible pain anymore?

xpost, would lungs be heavy enough to really deliver an effective bludgeoning? Why not tear off her leg and beat her with that, then she has a better chance of being conscious for it and UNDERSTANDING WHY.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post
Ooh! Slimey!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

A&E = Accident & Emergency = ER to youse guys (we also call it "Casualty").

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Those are all TV shows or networks! America loves TV, yar yar yar! Wadda country!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

the jucifer show was quite good, if underattended.

at one point, they shook the ceiling of the room so much that century old soot started to come down.

the first time they played there, they brought down a chimney that no one knew existed.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

the first time they played there, they brought down a chimney that no one knew existed.

That type of shit happens to me all the time.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Just from the throbbing bass?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell is happening to my happy McLusky concert thread?! Who are these people?! I creep out of TITTWIS for like 5 seconds, start a thread, and then, well, you can see for yourself...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope you've learned your lesson, Sarah. Nobody loves you but us and no one else ever will.

Hee hee, just kidding!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

So, you love me?? You do? You really love me?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

No no, that's what I was kidding about: NOBODY loves you!


Ho ho ho, no, I'm still joking. Wadda country! Yar yar yar!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Huk, I think this might be an abusive relationship.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

In America, you have term "emotional abuse," in Russia, we have communism! Yar yar yar!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

in soviet union, relationship abuses you! with its fists! ha! ha! what a country!

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 14 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of communism, Nick and I watched most of Children of the Revolution last night before we got too tired. Ever seen it? It's ok, but not as funny as Ruthless People or Meatballs, both of which we watched this weekend.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 14 June 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh! I actually have seen that one. I liked it well enough. I seem to recall one of the actors was very good. The mom? I forget.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 14 June 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The Goodyear Blimp is currently hovering around the south side of Ann Arbor right now. Why, i have no idea. Must be a good day for a blimp ride, i guess.

I did notice, however, that it had a little LED sign on its underside, giving handy facts about the blimp. The fact that the sign doesn't say "THE WORLD IS YOURS" or "LIVE THE GOOD LIFE IN THE OFFWORLD COLONIES" dissapoints me.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 14 June 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

or "ICE CUBE IS A PIMP"

― oops (Oops), Monday, 14 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

A quick hi. I probably won't be able to play on ILX at work that much anymore, they're cracking down on internet usage. If you want me to write you all letters or faxes (at company expense, of course), send me your addresses or fax numbers.

Sarah, don't forget to steal me some pralines!

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 14 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Huck could print out this thread every so often and fax it to you!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 14 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

or do what i do; copy/paste the entire thread into a worpad document. that way, you don't look like you're websurfing.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 14 June 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

that's just sad. ;)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of those tricks don't work because I'm still not sure if they monitor our web usage through the server there. We don't even have our own computers, we just have this little minicomputers that basically just serve to connect us to the main server. So it wouldn't be that hard for them to keep track of what we look at. I mean, it doesn't seem like it's that extreme, they just sent out an email reminding everyone of the "internet policy," (apropos of nothing apparent), but I've only worked there two months so I still feel like I have to be careful. Plus, I really have been online too much (see my current standing on the user log for proof).

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Who are these Susan blog people and why are they so stupid?

― Psychotic Episode (Psychotic Episode), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm actually thinking of starting a blog.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

But not about Susam.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

You're up late/early Chris!

I have developed a complete blog allergy, I don't know why.

My neck is much better today and the sun is shining. Unfortunately this also means it's the season for flies in the workplace, and they ALWAYS end up flying into the uplighter bowls here and burning to death. The summer air is constantly full of the scent of charred fly. Mm.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It's only 2am. It's not that rare for me to be up.

I'm totally tired and yet I really don't want to go to bed. Hrm.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I thought it was later. Post some poetry to ILB, since you're up :)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

When I've finally negotiated my summer hours at work I should have evry Friday off and since I have no MA classes for 3 months, I am going to use the time to WRITE. Bliss!

Haha mind you, I used to have Fridays off a few years ago for 'freelancing' and writing and did I ever do anything? Like hell.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Since when is writing bliss? ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Good point. When I have no time to do it, it always seems like it would be...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Writing is an act of escape, usually (or else an act of social obligation/interaction) (or it's a way to earn money). It is not, I have found, something you do when free.

Anyway, I posted a poem to the ILB thread, though as always I wished I could just show everyone the entire book so they had full context for it, etc., etc. Also because the retelling of "Romeo And Juliet" from that book, in that style, is something I wish I had written (and therefore makes me feel -- almost! -- like writing).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This is kinda why I think "I Love Writing" is either ridiculous or ironic.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No more so than I 'Love' Music, though, from what I can gather...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, thanks for making me feel slightly better about my quickly aborted attempts at writing.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It is hot. I just had an overwhelming urge for ice cream. If an ice cream van drove past my office right now I would possibly shag the driver just for a 99.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I hates writing.
http://www.acupofideas.com/images/cutouts/yosemitesam.gif

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

omg! I have ice cream in the freezer at home! Only 3 hours until I can eat it. Unless Matt has eaten it. Matt, please don't eat my ice cream thx bye.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I just ate an electric-yellow muffin. Nummy.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

But I love the feeling right after I've finished writing something.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a creamsicle. MMM... Orange & White Creamy goodness.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if Matt will avoid your ice cream to prevent you from having to shag the ice cream man, or will eat the ice cream to get back at you for selling your favours so freely.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ice cream is more expensive than gold in england

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

But I love the feeling right after I've finished writing something.

I love the feeling right after I've finished anything that took an absurd amount of motivation to start.

Writing almost always falls into that category.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? I enjoy the process more because I feel productive and because whatever I'm working on at the time is the best thing ever. But as soon as I'm done and I read it over, I realize it's a pile of crap.

― Comment dits-on le NA? (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate writing now, but it's about the only thing i do that in any way proves i exist, so i might as well carry on.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I like the process too, but I think being able to see/hear something completed is the best part.

With most things I will go back and edit (or have someone help me if there's someone available to do so), but the feeling immediately after I've finished [a draft] is always a great one.

In the case of writing, finishing the first draft is always a great feeling. When I'm recording stuff, it's having the first rough mix with all of the parts in place. In both of those cases, it means I need to take a break of at least a week before I revisit and start the cleaning up and refining process.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

(that was xpost to Nick)

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Music is totally different for me, probably because I have a lot more experience writing/recording music than I do writing stories or whatever. I feel like I'm better at recognizing if what I'm doing musicwise is "good" or "bad." Typically, if I record something that I'm happy about while I'm doing it, even if I go back and listen to it a year later, I'll still like it. If it's bad, I can usually figure out what's displeasing me and fix it, or recognize that it's a lost cause and trash it. Not so with writing, as mentioned above. I have no concept of the quality of what I'm writing as I'm working on it, and I am unhappy with the results 95% of the time. But I keep trying to do it. I need to work more on music. I'm going to record another album over Fourth of July weekend while Sarah's in Virginia.

― Comment dits-on le NA? (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, what I hate about writing is the lead-up to it. When I'm actually doing it and thoughts and words are flowing as they should, it's a beautiful thing. I find my comedy writing does this more lately than my "journalistic" tripe (maybe it's an attitude problem). But I very often DREAD sitting down to write something.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm doing a script report, which isn't even writing, really, and I'm still angsting about it. Talent, why hast thou forsaken me*?

*or indeed, ignored me

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I"m feeling very bad today. started last night. no good reason. fucking depression.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

People are doing some work in my backyard. I live near the corner of the block; the person whose garage is basically in our backyard (and who shared access to our driveway) committed suicide many many months back, and his garage had been a huge junk pile. So they are cleaning it out. It is very noisy and they are somehow creating a lot of dirty air which is going right into my room and making me cough.

Every day, I get closer to become Proust, except for the writing a brilliant book and hanging around with high society parts.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

So basically, you're my Aunt Judy?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, Sam - anything I can do?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

soupy day out there. i am rationing myself parliaments and ice cream

― kephm, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

It has been raining here for nearly a month. Not every day, but there hasn't been three days in a row without rain. Which is very abnormal for this part of the world. So no one's been able to cut their lawns and everything looks wild and smells great and all the billboards are sliding off or some of them are just showing the billboards underneath. It's awesome. I wish you could all be here.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I am reading "Wheat and Woman" finally. So. I am there in my mind! Or, a few miles away, in Qu'Appelle, 99 years ago.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Did I ever put that book in the mail that I mean to send to you? Crap, I don't think I did. I'm positive I didn't. Crap. I'll get on that.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I was kinda wondering about that at one point, but then that sort of passed. Then I think I might have scratched my elbow.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I'll definitely send that out either tonight or tomorrow.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Martin, I'm a bit better. Not neccescarily mood-wise but at least I"m not moping around the house. I have a friend who's staying with me (probably indefinitely), H. still doesn't have a car so I'm taxi-ing him, my friend D. (who's car broke down when we were coming from the movies this weekend) is also carless so I've been taking him to work and picking him up.

Luckily H. works 8-4 and D. works 3-11 so I'm able to take care of them both. And then my friend C. is here. . .

basically it is impossible for me to sit around by myself feeling depressed so I hope the fog will dispel itself soon.

off to get H. from work.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, keeping busy can often help. I hope it works for you.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If it helps, Sabrina has been suitably bitch-slapped.

― Psychotic Episode (Psychotic Episode), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, I really don't care about her. I only chatted with her online every now and then. What happened is I was chatting with that guy I dated last year and we were talkign about writing. I told him I hated people who always wrote sarcastically and criticized shit. I think it's lazy. He said, well what do you think of s******'s blog? I told him I couldn't stand it, it was vapid etc. Meanwhile he's chatting with her and immediately tells her what I said. How junior high is that?

I would have never told her that b/c it wasn't important, just my opinion. I don't know the girl in person and am not going to judge just based on my dislike of her writing style.

Apparantly she does not see things the same way.

Funny thing that just happened. My friend was baking some potatoes and I warned that I hadn't used the oven in over 6 mths but it worked as far as I knew. About 15 minutes later I notice it's getting hard to see. I ask her "Is it getting smoky in here?" just then the fire alarm goes off. but I took the one in the kitchen done and the one and above my bedroom's batteries were out. i thought. so i'm standing on a chair taking that one done and there's still beeping. we're looking everywhere, in the closet, she's messing with the stereo finally we find the kitchen's alarm which I had stuck in a cabinet.

duhh

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam, have you seen Mean Girls (of course, asking this is admission that I, indeed, have)?
Smoke alarms are crazy!

SO I just got the line-up for Thursday night's big am-com contest, and I'm right in the middle, following the guy who won last year. And there are few people on there that I actually know and would be looking forward to seeing, except...I'm going camping again, so I won't be there. I think that's kind of lame of me. Camping will always be there. A really shitty am-com contest that I've already paid my registration fee for only comes once a year. But I've already decided. Now I'm a little pissed off about it. Especially after the supposed success of last week's gig. It's not that I want to go out there and WIN, it's that I want to go out there and KILL.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

You're better off with Amway.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It's currently 3:12 in the morning, locally, and I'm still unable to even get in a couple hours of sleep before resuming that which I'm currently unable to do anything but put off. Procrastination SUCKS today.

Ergo, I'm going to "barricade" myself in this thread, because it's the lone place I'm feeling comfortable in at this time. You guys are fabulous, esp those SIX (can't believe I posted that accurate miscount!) people who helped out this little needy bird.

Time commences... now.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel, Huck, Pink, please take care of yourselves. Same goes for everyone else on this thread currently experiencing either physical or emotional setbacks. It does at times seem as though this whole thread is falling apart physically, but I am reminded that all of us are probably just getting older. ;)

Chris, I'm not sure why you're not receiving an overload of responses, so many responses that you'd be struggling to keep up with them all. You're a fantastic guy, very talented and witty and wise, and I feel that you make a great friend.

Wonder how Sarah's night with the McLuskyites went. I'm so sorry to hear that her fangirlish thread went all awry and that certain individuals seemed to seek to destroy her happiness, but maybe I'm taking this a bit too seriously, knowing how the mind of a fangirl works.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of fangirlishness:

I would like the opportunity to unveil the reason that I (and I'm sure many other people) feel that the firey lakes of hell are currently a-ok to do Ice Capades routines on:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/15/music.duran.duran.ap/index.html

My Guys finally have a new record contract, and it's with a big label again! (Coincidentally it's with the same label that signed on The Other Band I'm Crazy About.) I do have an issue with the title of the article -- never mind that they've been working on this album for at LEAST a year and a half and that I've had the demos on my HD for several months, apparently it's a NEW album. Ha. Oh well.

Rain would be lovely right about now. Lots and lots of deliciously slippery, wet rain. Of course, this would be coming during at a time when we don't really NEED the rain aquifer-wise, because the levels are well above average, but damn, I've been so accustomed to craving lots and lots of rain that I don't know how else to operate.

3:51 in the morning. Still up. "Barricade" progresses onward.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Dee, fellow insomniac. I've noticed lately that the birds start singing outside my window a little before 4 AM. I keep trying to sleep, and there's no reason that I shouldn't be sleeping, but here I am, awake.

Hope everyone's okay, and sleeping reasonably well at appropriate times, and stuff like that. Hi.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee, it might be because I'm marked as being "in a relationship".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

*hugest hugs in the world to Julia, my sister in insomnia*

Ah, Chris. That could be the reason. Which is kinda silly because being a relationship surely doesn't handicap one in terms of being a good friend, does it? ;) Heh, I know what you're on about.

Okay, 4:26 in the morning and I'm listening to Icehouse's "Crazy" on VH1C, thinking I can't possibly get tired of this song and then remembering I once thought the same of "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone" or whatever the name of that big hit by Glass Tiger was, but if you played that song to me today, I'd want to destroy property. Then again I never really got tired of "Electric Blue"... oh well.

Hey, if you're really, almost desperately wanting something, but feel that it would be shameful of you to bring it up in a manner that might even just APPEAR to be grovelling, would you overcome your personal pride and just ask or would you continue to hold your head up high and just crave away?

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay. 4:45 in the morning. I'm packing it in for the night. Or "night", really. Will continue this "barricade" ASAP. (Or maybe not. Feel I should be reserving the right to change my mind here.)

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to a bachelor party this weekend and won $150 playing poker. I also witnessed a kid falling through a glass coffee table.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I was being dumb about my band thread. I am too sensitive! Oh my god! But starting today I am going to be resiliant and have loads of self confidence. (The show, by the way, was fantastico.)

I am sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy.

Sam, I'm sorry you have to drive everyone around. I just saw that Simpsons episode where Marge flips out from driving everyone the other day.

Dee, there was a band called Glass Tiger? That's a great band name! Damn it, why can't I think of the best name ever on my own? Actually, my bandmates and I agree that the best bandname ever has already been taken (that being the S1ck Bees).

(I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggin' it, people like me)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Glass Tiger then:

http://www.vh1.com/shared/media/images/sn_legacy/addict/AMG_images/artists/P05157.JPG

Glass Tiger today.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't want to click on that link.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

(you guys know that Al@n Fr3w, the lead singer of GT is my older brother, right?)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

!

Are you serious?

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.stevethurow.com/things/images/liarliar.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh...YOU!

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a ba-a-ad boy!

http://www.tvtome.com/images/people/84/9/60-4677.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

hey kids,

dee, update yr bloggy blog girl! also, have you listened to much blur?

sarah, almost every band name's been taken. fuck it.

i'm such a massive lazy procrastinator.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

My birth control pill rolled under the couch and when I stooped down to retrieve it, I found my cell phone. The one I thought I had lost forever a couple of months back. What an idiot.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

wow.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Sam!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Jen and I went to an animal shelter last weekend to scope out the procedures and to look at some cats. Unfortunately they won't let you touch the cats unless you are already signed up to adopt, which is sad because most of the cats in cages want to be petted and stick their heads up to the bars when you get near them.

The older cats at the shelter made me sad. Most of them are there because their owners couldn't care for them any more. (i.e. They were too old, moved somewhere they couldn't take the cats, etc.)

In addition to the cats who were actually there, there were several pictures of cats with descriptions who were in foster care and available to adopt through the same shelter. Jen and I saw two grey tabby kittens, brothers, who were up for adoption, and their descriptions made them sound like super cats! We also saw a couple of kittens there, and Jen was very interested in getting a tiny cat.

I am still determined to save at least one older cat from shelter life, so after discussing it a bit I think we are going to end up getting two kittens (or very young cats) and one older cat. Which is good because I want a triple cat attack in the house, and before we were really only considering getting two.

We probably won't adopt new cats until some time in July, but we both miss having a cat around the house, so I don't think we'll delay much after the few things we're waiting on first. (We'll be out of town this weekend, Jen's mom is visiting for July 4, and then we're planning to have a housewarming party in early July after her mom leaves.)

Dammit I want some cats in the house!

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's excellent to get older cats.

I feel kind of straddled by mine. They do limit me in terms of mobility but they are 15 and 13 years old. Nobody would take them.

Hi Huck.

I hate taking pills. I have to take nine pills each day and it takes me nearly twenty minutes to swallow them all because I always gag. :(

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to take nine pills each day and it takes me nearly twenty minutes to swallow them all because I always gag.

Yikes... If you count vitamins I take 6.5 pills in the morning and 2 (sometimes 3) at night, but somehow I'm able to swallow the entire handful all at once. I guess I should count my blessings.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

this is why I don't take vitamins. my dr told me to get liquid vitamins that they make for old people but I haven't been able to find them. I always had trouble swallowing pills as a kid. I must've foreseen my future somehow.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, pills are such a pain in the ass. I'm lucky that I don't have trouble swallowing them, it just annoys me that some of them taste so bad.

Triple cat attack is a funny phrase. That sucks that they won't let you touch the cat unless you're signed up to adopt.

I'd gotten a message from this friendster guy that was all hilariously complimentary, so I wrote him back, saying...nothing much, really. I asked him about his mention of Vivaldi on his profile. His response (he says nothing about himself, he just keeps on complimenting me):

Have you ever heard an aria from Vivaldi called
Un Nulla Mondo Pax Romana, beautiful aria,
almost as lovely as you

Cheers

Smoooooth. I am very amused.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hasn't it been shown that the body doesn't properly absorb vitamins in pill form? That's why they now have the liquid variety, which taste like total ass. I never tasted it myself but my friend imbibes it and I've smelled it. It's one of the worst edible things I've ever smelled.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I am tired today. Sleep is a good idea.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I am tired too. I was tired yesterday from going to the show on Monday night, but last night I couldn't get to sleep despite being tired (which is the worst) and so now I'm still tired.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Triple cat attack is a funny phrase

I have a tendency to add the word "attack" to the end of a lot of things. The most common Jen & Martin household use of "attack" at the moment is "triple [or quadruple] pillow attack" which refers to the number of pillows I end up with after stealing one or both of jen's while I sleep. I need to get more pillows for my side of the bed so I can have my triple pillow attack and not disturb her at night.

I often refer to the number of eggs in a dish as a "X egg attack," etc.

I have no idea where the "attack" phrasing came from either. (Which is odd because I usually know where I get things like that whether I made them up or picked them up from someone else.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(xp)It does absorb them, but not as well. Or that's what I've heard, anyway.

Sleep is a good idea. I've been up til 4 am or later every night for no good reason (other than drug strangeness), so I called my doc and am rewarded with an upcoming early-morning blood test.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been hardly sleeping all week. Which isn't helping my slow recovery from this stupid head cold. And I skipped lunch today because I'm trying to cram three days of work into one because I'm going stupid fucking camping.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

We should collectively do something with our unused sleep. We should stockpile it, or keep it in a jar and see what it looks like (this is kind of gross, but when I was a kid, I had this odd inclination that I should collect all of my eye sleepy crusties in a jar so I could see what it would look like. Don't worry, I never actually did this.)

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(Sam, what about chewable vitamins for kids? You could crush them and put them in jelly -- that's what my dad did, for some reason, since I was always fine with pills.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Julia, watch out for those friendster don juan. The guy I dated from friendster is one of the people behind my fan club blog. nutcases.

when I was kid my mom used to crush up my pills and put them in applesauce. but i was on predinosone (sp?) for a year and she got sick of doing that so made me learn to swallow them. They have vitamin gumballs now! I think I'm going to try that.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

When will they make a vitamin-fortified margarita?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Margaritas have natural vitamins! And BOOZE.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Should the vitamin fortification be in the Tequila, the lime juice or what?

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

TH' WORM.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

so long, probably won't be back until Monday (unless I pop in later tonight, which is doubtful, but likely)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Kisses!

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely, you xpost?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You (don't) wish.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

No worries, Sam, I don't take it seriously. It's just funny is all. I have no interest in this guy, but it's entertaining to read the cheesy things he has to say...he's so ridiculously full of it.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

those messages i sent were supposed to be private, julia.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea where else to post this -- but this was weird enough I had to type it, if you see what I mean.

I just googled a friend of mine from college, someone I'd lost track of after we both graduated but lingered around the city anyway; she was constantly on the verge of moving, but never quite did unless she did so after I lost her email address. Anyway, googled her, and only one hit: a memorial site for someone who died two years ago. There's little text there, so although the guy looks vaguely familiar, all I know is that he went to her birthday party at some point, which is the only context in which her name appears on the page.

It makes me glad her email address isn't on the page, actually, because there's nowhere to go with, "So, I saw that someone you knew died, and ..."

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

my story with the kiddos:

http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2004-06-17/music.html/1/index.html

we had to strip so much out of out it feels like a skeleton now. still entertaining i suppose.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Still great! I know it can suck to trim, but even if the unabridged would be better, the abridged is good.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yay! congrats! i love the name of the label. . .

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I take back whatever defence I may have made for the Beastie Boys upthread. Ch-ch-check out this lyric on "Hey Fuck You": "So don't ask me to wine and dine ya/I'm from Brooklyn you're from Regina"
It's like they've been hanging out with Hstencil.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just had 2 days off cos I had an exam yesterday. I had worked my arse off revising over the last week or two, but cos of everything that has been going on, I haven't really been able to focus. It culminated in me leaving the exam after 2 1/2 hours in tears. Well that's another £80 down the drain. To add insult to injury I am now ill.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

that's shitty, Pink. I'll pass the kisses! NA sent me on to you!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

NA sent you on to me?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no Pink! Exams are evil evil evil things. But you must have got quite a way through the exam if you lasted 2.5 hours? How long can one exam last?

At least you have been trying to do this, and with all your moving stress as well. I salute the hard-working and wonderful Pinkest of Panthers! Get well soon x

I am struggling with a pointless presentation. Pointless because a) it's not assessed and b) about 70% of the class will not be bothering with it, having decided that they need to concentrate on their other courses. And yet... here I am, being conscientious and boring, and bored.

On a happier note, my home computer is finally fixed up, with a shiny new (fucking expensive) motherboard and a world of interweb mentalism, DVD watching, game playing and music making re-opened to us!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

[self-pity] oh & did i mention that i checked mt bank a/c & it turns out that I am right at my overdraft limit & i've got glastonbury next w/e. :-( Thanks arch, i think you should do the presentation then you can feel superior to everyone else. *hugs*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Arrrgh do not mention the overdraft limit! I am so financially fucked right now :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

tell me about it! just the worst mess ever.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink, any possibility you could re-take the exam? When do you hear the result? Hope it all turns out okay. Archel I applaud your perseverance with the presentation!

I have a pill-swallowing tip: (and Sam, apologies if you've already tried this and it didn't work) Try taking a big swig of drink and then hold it in your mouth and then add the pill (sounds harder to do than it is) and swallow together. I hate swallowing pills the pill-first way because they stick somewhere and choke me, but once I learned the reverse method, it all swishes down with no problems. Wish I'd known it as a child--my family used to have to crush up pills into yogurt for me.

Liquid vitamins sound gross.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah in december, it's cool, just not a pleasant experience you know.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm sarah, never heard that. I'll give it a try this morning. :)

"So don't ask me to wine and dine ya/I'm from Brooklyn you're from Regina"

hahah! didn't catch that. love that song though. Isn't there a Regina in Queens?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Bah. there's some fuck from the Heritage Foundation on NPR right now, attempting to discredit the idea that land-use, zoning, and sprawl has a correlative effect with the increase in obesity.

This shit pisses me off; i live in southeastern Michigan, which was consciously designed 50 years ago to require cars, and they just announced within the last year that Detroit was one of the top obese cities in the nation.

plus, the Heritage Foundation is a really right-wing group, usually sourced to back up whatever shitty policy the current Admin tries to promote.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

My Real Player list seems to love Blonde Redhead because it keeps playing their tracks even though I'm set on random and have 364 songs. But that's cool.

I feel super good about myself today. I had an adventure taking the L to work, then the bus, then walking a bit. The walk was the bit that made me feel proud, but also I'm happy because I didn't have to deal with traffic.

I'm sorry about your test, Pink. :-( I swear if you send me your current addy I'll get a package to you one of these days!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

sam, i liked your story. good stuff.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Another bit of audio delish, CP? Congrats, and have to earmark mine copy, yo.

Pink, was wondering what happened to you! Sorry about the test, mon ami. (hugs) Know you don't feel like dealing with it ever again, but don't let this beat you.

You're worth more than some frigging test result.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Great article, Sam!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonjour, mes amis! Still sweltering down here with the old dears, but the (unintentional) comedy of the England v. Switzerland match on BBC Radio 5 keeps my day bright.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Great article, Sam! I just read it. I need to find some of these songs I haven't heard so I can appreciate it even more.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

im having a laughing fit watching the new kings of convenience video clip. some fine dance moves from erlend.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There isn't a Regina in Queens that I know of. No one other than the Saskovites would be ballsy enough to name their town "Regina".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Fab article, Sammy! Bout time the audience was asked whether they like the music they hear.

Sedarius cuts in impatiently. "When are we getting to the up-to-date music?"

Best comment evah! Love this kid. Bout time Spears was tagged as the future has-been she is.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

David Sedarius

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

No one other than the Saskovites would be ballsy enough to name their town "Regina".

Ha! Canadian gangstas? Who knew?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Just read your article, Sam. I think I've found yet another phrase that would make a good album title:

"You might could dance retarded to it," says Sylvia.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I can only imagine what tha kids would have said if they heard my favorite band... I'm glad you didn't include them in your interview tape.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for the compliments. i love those kiddos.

i'm making them a beastie mix CDs now to go with the copies of the article i'm sending them. alwasy the teacher, me.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yus, a fine story indeed, Sam. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick is at a conference today, so I don't get to call him on my breaks. :-( But, I guess you guys are cool too. :-D

Both of my sisters are at the beach, but also that means they have to hang out with my relatives - suckaz!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

why does my singing voice sound better when i am exhausted?

― kephm, Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

cause it's got that hot, husky quality, you sexy beast.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

why does my singing voice sound better when i am exhausted?

It's possible that you are more relaxed when exhausted. The relative relaxation of the top half of your body has a lot to do with your singing voice (which is what all that "singing from the diaphragm" stuff you always hear is all about).

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

that makes sense. i think sometimes, i forget to breathe

― kephm, Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

can anyone recommend a program for listening/burning CDs. I liked Windows Media Player but for some reason it's not working now. I didn't really like Musicmatch, couldn't get the hang of it.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I think iTunes is pretty much the bigdog now, even on the PC.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I still use Musicmatch and like it very much. It does take some work to get it working properly and I did pay for the upgrade (to get faster CD burning mostly). I may try iTunes if someone can tell me if it will interface with my Creative Nomad Jukebox.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

do i have to pay for it?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

iTunes is free. Download it from www.apple.com. It doesn't work with Win98.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a career change. I shall be a cotton candy farmer. Fuck publishing in the goat ass.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll take your publishing job. you can have my middle schoolers.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Look away, look away, look away, Candyland.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll take your publishing job. you can have my middle schoolers.

With tiny paychecks, constant levels of stress and an assumption by bosses for lack of a life (pretty much), there's a difference?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the teens. huge difference.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

For better or worse?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

depends on how much of your sanity you value.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Or if you can make the madness work for you....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, for those of you who are sensitive...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit City

Didn't know you'd visited Florida, CP.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Why are colds such a pain in the ass? Currently I want to peel my face off & gouge my eyes out!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

why are females such bitches?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 18 June 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, not sure what you're talking about, but hope you're ok lady!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I want this shirt. Too bad they don't come in Red Sox colors.
http://moonlightgraham.com/mlg_catalog/images/products/158-1321-11_lg.jpg

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh that's great Chris!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Mm birthday work celebration soon... traditonally we drink Pimms on my birthday here, yay!

Pink: summer colds are the worst, as you can't even do anything comforting like snuggle up in a duvet with hot chocolate and a hot water bottle. Actually, I suppose you can... Either way, I sympathise honey! x

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheers darlin'. I have seen your plans for tomorrow on your other thread, they look great! Just to re-iterate what I said there, sadly i cannot make it to brighton this w/e, but hopefully soon!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I will raise a glass to you in absentia PP! And yay, come to Brighton soon.

Only dim spot on birthday horizon: I HAVE NOTHING TO WEAR. And no real money, just a Next voucher for £20, and after three trips to Next there is STILL nothing I like in there grrr typical. Stupid shop.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

There must be something Arch, what are you looking for, a top perhaps?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I wanted a dress - one purchase, whole outfit. But £20 in Next doesn't buy you much dress, also their sizes are always a bit weird and never fit me in the bust. Maybe I will nip back tomorrow morning and get a top... but everything seems to be that pale peachy pink colour which I like but doesn't really suit me.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah i see your problem there. Def worth just having a quick look to see if there's at least a top. You gotta have something nice & new on your b/day!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I know! So it's either that or have last minute breast implants so I can fill out the nice halterneck dress I tried on...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I could lend you mine, I dont think I'll be using them tomorrow?! (boobs not implants!)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

A lady is ALWAYS using her boobs, dear.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Trust me, I have plenty to go round! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of what to wear, I'm on this mission to find something more professional to wear at the conference next week. I'll be at this hotel (here in town - with my own room ooh la la) Wednesday through as long as Sunday, working and schmoozing, and I want to look a little more classy. Normally, I like to wear floral prints to work, but around polished folks I feel a bit frumpy.

Suggestions?

I was thinking of getting a nice A-line black skirt or pants. You know, a very basic professional piece... And then maybe a nice top or two.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that would be fine sarah. a-line skirts are great anyway & can def look the part on an occassion such as this!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

So I spent the day at this medical conference yesterday. It was pretty funny, all these pharmaceutical companies giving out candy, soft serve ice cream, protein shakes, and even crepes to try and get people to come look at their products. Some of the smaller companies had really disturbing displays; our booth was two down from this company that makes psoriasis cream and they had all these huge before and after pics. I took a bunch of free pens from different booths and ate a bunch of junk food and got to be out of the office all day and went home at 4:00. It was pretty fun.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmm psoriasis ice cream.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha the image from A Mighty Wind just flew into my mind unbidden, of Catherine O'Hara singing about incontinence products...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Conferences are great, loads of free tat!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It f*cking POURED in NYC last night and I got stuck in the middle of the storm. I was trouncing around the city in soaking wet jeans and wet socks. Heinous. The art show thingie I went to had free beer, so that was nice. But it was 900 degrees in there, making me even more soggy and uncomfortable. I think it's safe to say that I won't be having even a remotely "good" hair day from now until October. It's all piled up on my head like a cow pie. Isn't it amazing how summer is the season where I'm most horny, yet it is hands down THE most unattractive time of year for me. THIS is why GOD HATES US ALL. Or maybe just me.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Note: I just had a very strong cup of tea.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm pie!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I just ordered the new Minor Thirds and Ned Raggett albums from Sad Penguin and my indie cred shot up 6,000 points! I'm now dating Winona Ryder!

I just updated and prettified the Scare Quotes page, and I might be changing it more throughout the day.

I finally got a haircut yesterday. Now I look presentable.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm now dating Winona Ryder!

*HUMPH!!!*<hands on hips!>

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Sarah, but it comes with the indie cred. Nothing I can do about it.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't have to go into work today! hooray!

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Medical conferences are rad. You get all sorts of great graft. Back when I worked for the mu1tip1e sc1erosis folks I went to a few, and I still have great squishy brain toys and a bunch of pens with words like "Diflaxatrine" on them.

I've been using the word "rad" a lot lately, mostly because my ex is moving back to town, I think.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a Reader story this week about a group of local musicians who invented a term, "rawar style" to describe what genre of music they are, and as much as I am against making up new words to describe yourself, I think "RAWAR STYLE" is a pretty fun thing to say.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone have Ally's and/or Millar's recent email addresses? The one I have for Ally is at att.net and I think she has a newer one. You can email them to me if you got 'em. THanks.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I never thought about NA's full first name before! He's even cuter and twee-er than ever!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

What on earth made you think about that?

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Blame Paypal!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I r not twee. Je suis macho.

― St. Nicholas Ridiculous (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The two go hand in hand. Just ask the Village People!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I went by "Nicholas" at the high school I went to for junior and senior year, I think because that's what the teachers called me and so it caught on. It was kind of weird. Also in middle school, I was Nick, and then a new Nick moved to the school, but he had to be Nicholas because I was already Nick. Tough for him.

― St. Nicholas Ridiculous (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I was "Martin M." through most of elementary school cause there was also a "Martin F." I never figured out why I had to put "Martin M." on all my papers though, because Martin F. actually went by "Marty."

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was growing up, most of the neighborhood kids' moms called me Little Sarah, because there was a teenager named Sarah in our subdivision (Big Sarah).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently I was originally going to be named Nicholas, and I've always been a bit sad that didn't work out.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

But Christopher!

― St. Nicholas Ridiculous (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I was originally going to be named Jessie. I have always been "big Sarah" :(((

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I was originally going to be named Martin. Then I was.

When I got old enough to wonder why I was named Martin, my parents told me that it sounded good with Mu5hru5h.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

This is true.

I don't like "Christopher" much. For one thing, it isn't particularly accurate.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

this article is pissing me off. it's on the two different rock fests going on tihs weekend around here.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 18 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I have ordered some shoes that came in the mail today, and holy shit, they fit (yay). But. They don't look quite as I expected--part of me thinks "oh they're hideously ugly gaaah", but I'm not sure if I'm overreacting. They're black slides with this sort of toe-thing which seemed okay in the picture but is much more prominent now that I have the actual shoes.

I'm so glad I have shallow things to obsess over, I need them right now.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 18 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

We got the house! Yay!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You're buying a house?

― St. Nicholas Ridiculous (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello Andrew V## L####! We've compiled the freshest job matches for you based on your job preferences.

"We also have mad tight temp opportunities and crazy ill internships available!"

― oops (Oops), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear us and our mad job finding skillz, yo.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 18 June 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

PIMP MY CAREER OMGWTF!!!1

― oops (Oops), Friday, 18 June 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Not buying, just renting. But it means I don't have to househunt this weekend!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Our new house will be catty-corner from this:

http://www.happydeathinc.com/Roadside%20Chic/giantmilk.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

As you can imagine, it spins.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The milk carton, not the hosue.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

chris, have you bought a house?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 June 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night, on the MuchMusic Video Music Awards, the Beastie Boys were presented some lifetime achievement award and when the mic got to Ad-Rock he said: "From Toronto to Vancouver...[and here he paused and got that dirty grin of his] to Regina...we love you!"
Which was so hilarious to me because in my review of the album (for which my esteem has only grown) I spent 60% of the copy talking about the various Beastie-Regina connections, and I mentioned that only Ad-Rock has yet to acknowledge Regina, AND THEN HE DID. The day after the review saw print!
I am the most powerful man in showbiz.

Also, I had an awesome camping trip and I'm gonna try to get caught up with all the stuff here, but I've also got a lot of work to catch up on, and I'm not sure what my priority should be. And crap, sorry, Chris, I forgot to get a butter tart AGAIN. But I did see the most awesome town name in all of SK and completely harassed my brother the rest of the way to Saskatoon by repeating the town's name in a variety of nauseating voices.
Blumenheim!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

From the Toronto Star:

After all, the Beastie Boys do get around, and not just to Japan and Europe. While talking about Canada and his familiarity with
Vancouver's Gastown in particular, Mike D recalls spending some extended time in Regina several years ago when his wife, director
Tamra Davis, was filming there.

"For me it's kind of fun to live in a small town for a little bit," he says. He appreciated the relative simplicity, and the strange freedom
afforded by limited choices.

"The health food store is over here, the park is over there, that's the college over there. It's very flat and very quiet in Regina."

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay Huck the beasties guru!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking hate anxiety. Instead of butterflies in the stomach, I've got nasty cicadas or something. Ack. I feel like gagging.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw Jeanne, that sound nasty. Are you okay?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeannie, I'm here if you need me. Meanwhile, big hugs to you, sug. xxxx

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not buying a house, just renting one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

So Chris, how do you feel about the Beastie Boys horning on on TM3 territory?
I think we finally have a bicoastal rivalry worth getting out of bed for (or worth getting INTO bed for!).

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to say something about how we're horning in on Beastie territory as well, but I've never actually liked the Beasties so I can't make a clever joke about it. We do have the "clean" version of our new album, though, so that Wal-Mart can stock it!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I went into Wal-Mart for the first time in years to get some last minute things for my camping trip last week and holy shit is that place scary!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

and yes, I was totally making mental notes for my comedy act.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, check your e-mail.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't. Lousy yahoo upgrade is too hot for my work browser. I have to get the systems dept. to upgrade it. What a sad state of affairs, huh?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

but i'll check it at home.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. Well figure out another way to e-mail me your address.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't have gmail yet?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried, but Gmail's too good for this computer too!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Pine? Can you make Pine work?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Click on my user name, go to "webmail", and send it through there?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel so stupid. I don't even know what Pine is. I mean, I know what pine is. But not as it relates to anything computerological.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

consider yourself webmailed.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ps to all the TITWISers out there: I was expecting more from this thread today. I'm very disappointed Chris and I are the only ones posting here. After 4 days away, I mean, sigh.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry Huck. I was like properly busy at work today, and tonight's been the England match. I also am not witty like y'all.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

we had the game on here at work. we have a couple of former Brits in the office, who mainly express such identity by being football fanatics.
One of them remarked to me just before England closed the door with their fourth goal, "it's a pretty exciting game, innit chum?"
ANd I said, "yeah, except for the soccer part of it!"
Zing!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely you can make Pine jokes, Mark?

Pine is an old Unix-style e-mail program. It's text-based and all that.

Anyway, e-mail rec'd, systems are go.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I've actually been doing work today too, I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm excited about my Sad Penguin cds arriving someday, and about recording over the July 4th weekend, and also, I don't think Sarah mentioned this, but she has a conference here in Chicago at the end of this week at a nice hotel and her company got her a room there so she won't have to commute, so I'm going to stay there too and watch a lot of cable and maybe go swimming if I can use the pool. It will be like a minivacation except I'll still have to go to work. Anyways, it will be the whole second half of this week. I like hotels.

― St. Nicholas Ridiculous (Nick A.), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hotels are fun.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

They went in the mail today. They would have gone in on Saturday but the post office was closed and it was too hot to go to the main one downtown. So they should arrive -- tomorrow? Wednesday? Who knows!

Will the hotel have wifi?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i just don't have anything to say.

Pine was the first email system I used. I liked it.

There's going to be WIFI at TX rest stops.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've used Pine for 10 years.

i'd still use it, except that my engin account is 98% spam now.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i would still use it if i had a unix shell.

i programmed all of my first websites through a unix shell.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

They're working to put free Wi-Fi throughout Portland. They've just put the first broadcaster up. My new house is not in this area.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm trying to get the owner of the bar i do sound at to put in a wifi rig.

i don't have a laptop, of course, but it'd be neat nonetheless.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so sorry for ignoring this thread, as well as The Forum as a whole. It's just been really amazingly weird here lately, and I've been doing some "catching up" sleep-wise, so I decided tonight's my ILXing night. No other distractions aside from Winamp, spinning the tunes I tell it to spin. Speaking of -- I'm on a huge Blancmange kick right now. I'm only listening to "Blind Vision", "That's Love, That It Is", "Living On The Ceiling", and "Don't Tell Me". Any additional recommendations would be highly appreciated.

Sam, to answer a days-old question, I was in fact really enamored of the Blur singles back when they were released, but unfortunately was too caught up with trying to absorb every single little '80s thing I could gather up that I completely ignored that group until it was too late for me to really start following them (i.e. the rather late '90s). I have never stopped regretting this, ever since coming onto This Forum and realizing that what I had done was just waste away my teenaged years by pursuing another decade altogether. And while I'm not altogether disappointed at the fact that I've become this Eighties Queen, I do feel that I might've set myself up for failure there wrt relating to others around my age.

*ahem* But you were just asking about the Blur thing, so yeah, there you go.

Mega congratulations to you and Chris, though. I will get me one of them there TM3rds CDs when finances allow for some disposable income. :)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Good morning. Right now I am eating what is essentially a heart attack in pastry form. But hey, what was I going to use that extra year of my life for anyway?

I like Pine.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe I'll send you a blur comp dee. i used to really be into them but really can't listen to them anymore. (my tastes are weird and often do complete 180s).

I still want to send you those Duran records. I'm going to be packing soon so I should unearth them. Do I have your mailing address?

I'm glad the owner of Sh1ps is a crazy, luddite old man. If there was ever wifi acccess there it would lose its status as "my office". It's the only place where I can take my laptop and get writing done. No TV or 'net to distract me.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I used Pine (and Elm?) at university - 1994-96. Pine was fine. I can't remember it for the life of me, though. I wonder what happens if you email itubn@csv.warwick.ac.uk?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i've become an online poker junky. of course all is well in good because in 4 days i have amassed $1700 in real money. I think I need to delete my account because I feel this could get scary....and scary fast. Its my own money, it not from my joint account with the lady. I don't need another addiction.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, james did this, but was playing on the ones where he was playing with toy money.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, yous guyses. I am in a good mood. I've been taking the L (and riding the bus and walking) every once in a while to work now and it's a lot of fun. :-D I get to read, space out, whatever, and get some exercise too.

Also, tomorrow is my last day in the office this week because of the conference Nick mentioned.

Tonight I'm going to polish my resume so I can start sending it out again. I don't know why such a simple task makes me so scared.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, Chris you do need to stop. You're ahead now, but, uh, nobody ever opened a casino online or off because they like to see people win.

I woke up a little early and thought I'd check out what goes on in here while I'm normally rub-a-dub-dubbing.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Be brave Sarah, you can do it lady! :-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I woke up a little early and thought I'd check out what goes on in here while I'm normally rub-a-dub-dubbing.

Pervert! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just realised that I have a huge pic of my mum's dog on my desktop right now, and that I hate people who have huge pix of their mum's dogs on their desktops.

I am middle-aged twee secretary woman :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You're not middle aged! heh!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha! Thanks...

While I consider whether to get rid of the digital Eve, my boss and I seem to be having a cultural audio war with our PCs: I am listening to The Velvet Underground, and she's watching a German DVD. Interesting juxtaposition...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm wearing pants now!
I hate people who wear pants.
I am a middle-aged office schmuck man.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

this is what happens when you have no life, drink a twelve pack and check you bank balance on a friday night. The one I play on has a little tab for responsible gaming. You can limit your play or ban real money play. Which is what im going to do. As for now, what do i spend that money on. Lets see I just paid off my car a few weeks ago and that could make a nice down payment on a new one....or a surround sound system....

Also, I just discovered "On Demand" on my digital cable. So I got to watch the Sopranos season one. It also has season one of curb your enthusiasm.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i really wish my cable offered on demand. :(

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have dogs on my desktop, but they are just random beagle puppies I found online. I think maybe that's worse than having your mom's dog on the screen.

One of my coworkers has a photo of her kids on her screen, but it's all distorted because she doesn't know how to manipulate images (or maybe they really look like that?!).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That's exactly the kind of thing I mean Sarah... when the photo is all massive and distorted through techocluelessness. To be fair my picture is not distorted, just accidentally large.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it probably looks fucked up b/c she checked "stretch" insted of just centering on her display properties (control panel)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG there's a fashion feature in today's paper on "Stepford Style"
I need to find a new place where the kids are hip.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently the on demand has been available for a month and I never knew. I never channel surf to the 900 channels. They even have adult on demand. I was laughing at the titles available. "Miss Black Nude America", "Hirsute Asian Ass", "Young, Dumb and Shaved".

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Hirsute Asian Ass???

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, that intrigued me very much. hahaha. nothing like a little sasquatch ass to get the day started right.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Today is Day 2 of Wet Hacky Cough Week. Ugh.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man kingfish be prepared, i've had it for a month. of course i am also an avid smoker so this contributes to it.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

but who's jerk-off habits are that specialized? it's like a sub-sub-genre.
"Oh these Asian asses are all right, but I just can't make woo-hoo unless they're really hairy."

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that sounds like hardcore hardcore.

i still want on-demand. in fact, I demand it.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

oh there's a market out there somewhere. just not in my house.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah some of the titles were pretty scary. "Boot Fucking".

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

and you can watch previews....i may have to check out the boot fuking one. Whatever the hell that is.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't decide whether fucking a boot or fucking WITH a boot would be a worse interpretation.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Galoshes & Ginch

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

If the preview shows these things I may bust a nut before I even order it.

http://www2.localaccess.com/rockhell/blast/moonboots.jpg

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess we need to put a NSFW designation on this thread now.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh! Basic Colors! H O T.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.homevideos.com/revforeign/dasboot.jpeg

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Do the soles leave a happy face footprint?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

please god let them leave a happy face footprint.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

man, just imagine a camera shot with legs sporting those boots cranked up into the lens

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Some days you guys are better than coffee.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

hunh, whaddayaknow. my high school choir teacher is finally retiring. he spent 3 years trying to get me to join, and i finally did my final year. I found out a little later that both him & his kinda twin brother both studied under my uncle at Olivet Nazarene.

i wonder if any of my high school teachers are still there, even.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Might as well get the Dick Bushey joke out now.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

god help us.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yes, that was another endless source of amusement for many people...

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a really awful '70s p0rn0 once where the lady was wearing white rollerskates and a scarf around her neck. The man had a Magnum PI moustache and a helmet of curly hair. I have never laughed so hard at a p0rn0 in my life.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeanne releases the secret beta-max tapes of her being conceived....

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeanne unleashes the secret beta-max tapes of her being conceived....

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Did the rollerskates stay on?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Officials Hope Video Will Inspire Gorilla

NEW ORLEANS - A gorilla sex video is getting regular play here. It's not the sort found easily
on the Internet, but officials at the Audubon Zoo are hoping it'll inspire one of their gorillas into
action.

Casey, 21, came to New Orleans two years ago on permanent loan from the Como Zoo in St. Paul,
Minn.

The hope was that he would impregnate one or all of the Audubon Zoo's three female lowland
gorillas — Binti and Fanya, both 28, and Binti's 8-year-old daughter, Praline.

Casey gets along well with Binti, Fanya and Praline, but he hasn't produced any offspring. "He gets
a little intimidated," curator Dan Maloney said Friday.

Maloney got a tape of copulating gorillas from a camera used to monitor another zoo's gorilla area.
It's played in the indoor cage where Casey spends his nights.

"He doesn't seem that interested at this point, but he likes watching television so he does watch it,"
Maloney said. "Hopefully, he'll get some inspiration."

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Poker is actually a game of skill -- not video poker, but Texas Hold 'Em and whatnot. A friend of mine occasionally makes his living from playing poker.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Is your friend Ben Affleck?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Not even close.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, thats what I play. Texas Hold Em and Omaha.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, the skates stayed on, but what was so hilarious was how she was struggling to keep her heels in the air because the weight of the skates was plenty.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, if you're good at it, there's not much of a reason to be worried, is there?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

when you have an addictive personality there is....

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, hey, I fixed my ukulele and learned a chord! Stardom, here I come!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes but if you're making $1700/day it might be OK to go crazy for a few weeks, you know? Especially if you send some my way.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

upon transcribing my interview with Maynard of the Woggles(who are playing here next month), i have come to the conclusion that i talk way too much and have really tangential interview threads.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The Woggles fucking rock. The last time they were here I danced more than I have in a long time. I was soaked in sweat.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Urgh, I played last night and won another $500! Crap.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Well chris, maybe it's better that you give me all of your winnings & that way, you might learn to quit!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

And i've also got conjunctivitis! HOTT!

Alright, I'll give my winnings out to everyone! Free money for all!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurray! I'd like $200 please.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like everything you've got pls!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've disabled the "login to real money" feature for a month. I think its pretty cool that they encourage responsible gaming and take steps to help people who have problems. Now i'll just play with fake money. its fun. www.pokerroom.com

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the 1000th post. time for a new thread. what about "This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 16: Monsterpussy"?

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Or "TITWIS Pt 16: And Your Little Dog Too"

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

or "pt 16: The Comforts of Madness"

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

TITtWISt 16: "All Your Gmail Accounts Belong To Us"

I just got a gmail account, which I'm not planning to use. Just because they're there.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"pt 16: Sound of Confusion"

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I left out the "Are"! Blah. I hate Mondays!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i got a gmail account weeks ago. i've never used it. someone can have it if they want to change their name to mine.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Part 16: I Liked It So Much, I bought the company.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Part 16: Ladies' Choice.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Part 16: Clothing Optional

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Thy will be done.

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 16: And Your Little Dog, Too

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)


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